Oracles

By Mario Brooks

  “Oracles” is a book written with the busy modern reader in mind. It is an interconnected collection of concise essays, poems, vignettes, and images that straddle the line between spirituality and philosophy. This unique book provokes the heart and mind of the reader to contemplate matters such as the condition of the hear

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mythologem Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Mar 12, 2017
• ISBN: 9780996554527

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The Heart’s Residence

Our hearts often have no formal entrance. Wide-pathed and loose-hinged, we allow far too many visitors to enter. Let it be known the decorum required to visit your chambers, as its visitors should come by private invitation only, not by street sign nor word of mouth.

An elegant abode often repels the foolish from even visiting. For charlatans and vagabonds roam the streets, ransacking unattended homes and leaving in their place shambles and disgrace.

Our entrance door need not be adorned, only solid, sound, and hinged upon prudence, discernment, and kindness.

Persona

Self-expression adjusts the lens of identity into sharper focus. However, if one’s expression is a reflection of another, whose identity is known? Does not one become a mere prism through which the light of another passes through?

And so this path of least resistance ends at a destination of great folly, causing many to become as beaches that yield their shores to the erosion of another’s influence, becoming fragmented plots, windswept of ideas, and littered with trash.

Descending Upward

One night in the frigid cold, a monk wearing tattered robes fled an ancient monastery nestled high within the mountains. A full moon bathed the snow-covered mountainside in pale light, making the monk’s descent clear to see. But soon after leaving, the monk became exhausted and deathly cold. Staggering a few more steps, he collapsed to the ground for lack of strength and inadvertently struck his head upon a rock dusted in snow. The blow knocked him unconscious. When he regained