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Aug 20, 2018 07:49:46   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
"Sometimes..."


"Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic... but better to feel it and
talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned."
- Anne Lamott

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
- Elizabeth Kenny



The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"


"One Day"

"One day I will say
the gift I once had has been taken.
The place I have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones
I would want.
Then I will be ready
for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.
And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again
on the road,
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop
and laugh
and drink together again
from the deep well of things as they are."

- David Whyte,
"Where Many Rivers Meet"

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see -
it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life."
- Robert Penn Warren




"So This Is Hell..."





"How It Really Is"




"My Own View..."


“My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. It happens to be my view, but it doesn't challenge any of the findings of Darwin or Huxley or Einstein or Hawking.”
- Christopher Hitchens

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Aug 21, 2018 07:53:02   #
Big dog
 
pafret wrote:
"Sometimes..."


"Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic... but better to feel it and
talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned."
- Anne Lamott

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
- Elizabeth Kenny



The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"


"One Day"

"One day I will say
the gift I once had has been taken.
The place I have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones
I would want.
Then I will be ready
for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.
And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again
on the road,
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop
and laugh
and drink together again
from the deep well of things as they are."

- David Whyte,
"Where Many Rivers Meet"

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see -
it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life."
- Robert Penn Warren




"So This Is Hell..."





"How It Really Is"




"My Own View..."


“My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. It happens to be my view, but it doesn't challenge any of the findings of Darwin or Huxley or Einstein or Hawking.”
- Christopher Hitchens
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NICE, especially the last one.

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