Honor

we have lost our sense of honor. honor's not something you win in battle, not a crown for the victor, not something you can build or buy. honor is a way of life... and it begins with respect. we no longer respect the many forms of life around us... hell, we're so busy just trying to survive that we dont even see life, much less know it! every person, good, bad, or ugly, deserves our respect... for they are merely in all their glory, and in all their human weakness, reflections of us... a part of us! every form of life... dogs, cats, elephants, ants, whales, turtles, trees, rivers, mountains... deserve our respect... for they are a part of us, and we of them... so many of us are experiencing financial failures, hunger, poverty, and distress... and we feel like we've lost any sense of honor... but a man and a woman's honor is not held in these things... it is held in the naked truth of what we do next... whether we remain as self-oriented islands, or whether we rejoin the sea and the sky of life... together as one. only then will we be an honorable people!