Jun 2020
Laws? Forget laws. They are merely social conventions to
expedite the activities of life. In so many cases, they rarely
embody truth. Truth? Ah, there's the core! The question
truth demands of each of us is to discern, then act upon,
what is right, and not act upon what is wrong. Right is what
is moral, wrong immoral. If properly reasoned, every act must
be reduced to this fundamental question: What is moral and
what is not. A library of law books will not answer for you
this question. You must go to your heart and dwell there until
ineluctably you sense what your heart is telling you is moral,
what is right. This is the trial that must be held in each of us
each time we act; your heart paradoxically is at once a jury
of one and the truth of infinite Cosmos.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
expedite the activities of life. In so many cases, they rarely
embody truth. Truth? Ah, there's the core! The question
truth demands of each of us is to discern, then act upon,
what is right, and not act upon what is wrong. Right is what
is moral, wrong immoral. If properly reasoned, every act must
be reduced to this fundamental question: What is moral and
what is not. A library of law books will not answer for you
this question. You must go to your heart and dwell there until
ineluctably you sense what your heart is telling you is moral,
what is right. This is the trial that must be held in each of us
each time we act; your heart paradoxically is at once a jury
of one and the truth of infinite Cosmos.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
