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8 years 5 months ago - 8 years 5 months ago #205286 by Amaya
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Everything is belief
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8 years 5 months ago #206580 by
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DREAMS

Trying to recall the plot
And characters we dreamed,
What life was like
Before the morning came,
We are seldom satisfied,
And even then
There is no way of knowing
If what we know is true.
Something nameless
Hums us into sleep,
Withdraws, and leaves us in
A place that seems
Always vaguely familiar.
Perhaps it is because
We take the props
And fixtures of our days
With us into the dark,
Assuring ourselves
We are still alive. And yet
Nothing here is certain;
Landscapes merge
With one another, houses
Are never where they should be,
Doors and windows
Sometimes open out
To other doors and windows,
Even the person
Who seems most like ourselves
Cannot be counted on,
For there have been
Too many times when he,
Like everything else, has done
The unexpected.
And as the night wears on,
The dim allegory of ourselves
Unfolds, and we
Feel dreamed by someone else,
A sleeping counterpart,
Who gathers in
The darkness of his person
Shades of the real world.
Nothing is clear;
We are not ever sure
If the life we live there
Belongs to us.
Each night it is the same;
Just when we’re on the verge
Of catching on,
A sense of our remoteness
Closes in, and the world
So lately seen
Gradually fades from sight.
We wake to find the sleeper
Is ourselves
And the dreamt-of is someone who did
Something we can’t quite put
Our finger on,
But which involved a life
We are always, we feel,
About to discover.

Mark Strand

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8 years 4 months ago #206989 by
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"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and
Demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life,
Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and
Its purpose in the service of your people.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
Even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and
Bow to none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and
For the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks,
The fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing,
For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts
Are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes
They weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again
In a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

~Chief Tecumseh

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8 years 4 months ago - 8 years 4 months ago #209076 by
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Follow Your Dreams

If while pursuing distant dreams
Your bright hopes turn to grey.
Don't wait for reassuring words
Or hands to lead the way.

For seldom will you find a soul
With dreams the same as yours.
Not often will another help you
Pass through untried doors.

If inner forces urge you
To take a course unknown,
Be ready to go all the way,
Yes, all the way alone.

That's not to say you shouldn't
Draw lessons from the best;
Just don't depend on lauding words
To spur you on your quest.

Find confidence within your heart
And let it be your guide.
Strive ever harder toward your dreams
And they won't be denied.

-Bruce B. Wilmer
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8 years 4 months ago #210399 by Edan
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Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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8 years 3 months ago #213967 by
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The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

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8 years 2 months ago - 8 years 2 months ago #217571 by
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This is my wish for you
Comfort on difficult days
Smiles when sadness intrudes
Rainbows to follow the clouds
Laughter to kiss your lips
Sunsets to warm your heart
Hugs when spirits sag
Beauty for your eyes to see
Friendships to brighten your being
Faith so that you can believe
Confidence for when you doubt
Courage to know yourself
Patience to accept the truth
Love to complete your life

― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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8 years 2 months ago - 8 years 2 months ago #219134 by Alexandre Orion
Jour 2

From through a hydrocarbon haze,
A briefly sentimental breeze blasts ;
Amplified echos of longing and proscription
Carried on the liquid light of a binary system –

Listening in an electric field
To confessions dreamt by antique giants,
Holding him closely – Caressing his Conscience
Across seven intimate parsecs …

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Par la giboulée hydrocarburée,
Un bref grain sentimental gémit ;
Échos amplifiés de désirs proscrits
Portés sur la lumière liquide d'un système binaire –

J'écoute dans un champ électrique
Aux confessions rêvées par géants antiques,
Le tiens de près – le caresse la Conscience
A travers de sept parsecs intimes ...
Alexandre Orion
05 janvier 2016

Be a philosopher ; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
~ David Hume

Chaque homme a des devoirs envers l'homme en tant qu'homme.
~ Henri Bergson
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8 years 2 months ago #222398 by Lykeios Little Raven
A Hero's Atonement
As he lay down
Braced for death
thoughts began then to surround
choking off his final breath
In silent repose the warrior sprawled
Resting now alone
Amongst the gore through which he'd crawled
Seeking vainly to atone
For sins and crimes against his kin
Hand outstreched and bent
In his throes he'd sought to win
The hand of a foe whose life was spent
In those last brief moments
Fighter he had learned the worst
That those he fought and strived to kill
We brothers and grave heroes first.

“Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” -Zhuangzi

“Though, as the crusade presses on, I find myself altogether incapable of staying here in saftey while others shed their blood for such a noble and just cause. For surely must the Almighty be with us even in the sundering of our nation. Our fight is for freedom, for liberty, and for all the principles upon which that aforementioned nation was built.” - Patrick “Madman of Galway” O'Dell
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8 years 1 month ago #225446 by Edan
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A little bit of free flow from me..

Sound does not echo in this hall the darkness swallows it along with fear, joy, happiness, melancholy and regret. This space does not judge, condemn nor praise; it is an expanse within as well as without. A light lays rest on a pedestal, on a book bound in leather. The pages are worn, the symbols ancient, but in their obscurity they speak and are understood... their emanations both magical and mundane. You speak my name from the shadow, the old epithet I hold within my heart. I kneel but you beg me stand, embrace me as an equal, whispering words of comfort and encouragement. This place is imbued with your strength and sovereignty and when I close my eyes, I will take it with me.

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