Hope, Coffee and Poetry

David Price
4 min readMar 2, 2024
Raquib Shaw

Many will become sick,

others will lose their strength,

yet others will no longer be able

to dream and have visions.

Man will start waging war

against his fellow man for no reason,

he will prove incapable of telling the truth

and treating his brother with honesty.

Furthermore, he will no longer be able to survive

on his land, his life will be filled with resentment and sadness. Gradually, in the end, man will poison himself and everything he touches.

All of this has been foretold.

— Dakota Yanktonwan Canupa

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Humans really could have had a beautiful little existence on earth just creating art and eating fruit. Instead we have credit scores and taxes.

— From Don’t Waste The Crumbs

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Awakened individuals love doing nothing. They relish solitude, quietness, and inactivity. In my book Back to Sanity I suggest that this is one of the most obvious differences between living in a state of “humania” — that is, our normal state of human madness — and in a state of inner harmony. In humania, which is equivalent to a state of sleep

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.