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"We believe that humanity stands at the threshold of its next great leap. However, our success in making this transition depends on our willingness to develop a greater vision and a clearer sense of responsibility for one another. Understanding and articulating the nature and dynamics of consciousness is key to achieving this new vision."
-- Barbara Fields Bernstein

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"I played water polo when I was a teenager. It is a very challenging sport, and many of the kids act dishonorably underwater when the referee is not watching (such as putting their foot in your Speedos and putting their weight on them so you start to sink). My water polo coach taught a good lesson in regard to one of my teammates who was angrily shouting an oath at his opponent. The coach later told us: "Say nothing and walk away, or say nothing and kick his ass. But either way, say nothing.""
-- Jason Merchey

Writings by the "Wise Guy"

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Essays & Poetry

I am pleased to share with you some of my favorite essays and poems, as well as my blog, The Values Divide™.

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My Blog

Essays

Why Values of the Wise?
How Values of the Wise™ Can Help You
Start Today
Take Heart
We Can Do Better
Progressivism in Practice
If We Don't Turn Around Now
The Relevance of Values to Politics
Proud To Be Liberal
The American Moral Compass Seems Broken
Problems & Solutions In Modern America
The Modern Day Chivalrous Life

Poems

It should be clear from reading some of the following poems that I have experienced quite a panoply of intense emotion: fear, anger, hopelessness, loss, anxiety, depression, etc.,

True, I have written about honor, peace, justice, and other brighter, more positive topics and feelings, but I add these more personal poems because I believe that to read a person's poetry can give insight into the person. It can also hearten us and connect us to what it means to be human.

The places I have been emotionally have helped to make me who I am today, as fire is needed to bend steel. The values that move me came into focus for me in part *because* of the duress of pain I have gone through (and still experience at times).

I hope that you will not be taken aback by the intensity or content, but come to know me more fully -- and see how values can be helpful to a human being, like a guiding star during a dark night.

A Leap of Faith
Like A Moth to a Flame...
Behind Her Eyes
Be Careful What You Wish For
Ambivalence
A Mountain My Heart Must Climb
Amnesty...
Anti-Love
Bittersweet Memories
Bittersweetness
Connection
Depression
Every Coin Has Two Sides
Externality
Fear Not the Fight
Friendship Is Thicker Than Blood
High Commendation
Honor
I Give You My Hand
Ignorance Lies Behind Her Eyes
Insanity
Loneliness
Love's Tree Is But A Seed
My Best Friendship
My Golden Trophies
My Hypocricy Knows Bounds
Nietzsche's Overman
No-Man's Land
Ode to ConsciousnessOde to Consciousness
Ode to Shakespeare
On the Abuse of Power
Rarities
Relating
Stand For Something
Symbols
The Courage to Feel
The Day We Said Goodbye
The Future Is Now
The Rose I Hold Carefully
The Scarlett Letters
The Sting of Transience
The Sword and the Butterfly
The Truly Noble Man
The Weight of a Hummingbird
What Does the World's Depravity...
Theresa
Time Becomes Irrelevant
Time I Wrote a New Book
Toward More Authentic Knowledge of Myself
Watching TV...
What We Do Not Perceive...
Will Star Trek Forever Remain Fiction?

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