We cannot spend our best days at rest,
Till we find our strength is gone,
But must seek that misadventure
That circles a world wide.
For he that has never been lost
Cannot be found,
And the heart that has never been moved,
Can never know peace
A World Wide
31 May 2012 4 Comments
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Good and Evil
30 May 2012 4 Comments
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We honour what we see in ourselves,
And despise what we fear to find there also –
This is good and evil.
Necessity
25 May 2012 2 Comments
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When we move, not randomly, but by necessity,
We move most powerfully,
Feel most freely,
And are at the peak of true creativity.
Wobbles
22 May 2012 5 Comments
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We find no balance by standing still,
But by moving forwards
Does each footstep find the next,
And in the journey, with all it’s wobbles,
We can can find our peace
Fear
12 May 2012 2 Comments
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Fear is a good servant, but a terrible master.
Ego
11 May 2012 Leave a comment
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Ego is for communication, never comparison.
Fate
05 May 2012 6 Comments
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Yes, we have a fate,
It just hasn’t been written yet.
Weather
04 May 2012 2 Comments
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Layer upon layer of clouds like waves,
A crescent moon sails pale on the blue,
Rain is coming to fill the fields,
My heart trembles to see it.
Weather, we’re weather,
A blowing change,
Matched only by the heavens,
A mirror to my soul;
Arising spontaneously, falling to nothing.
Whose fault the mind born to marvel at itself?
Conflict
04 May 2012 4 Comments
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To be human is to be conflicted,
Between what you want and what is needed;
A society of demands to disturb the soul.
But even in conflict there is balance,
Breathing in the deep a new way is found,
An army working for the greater good,
Strong enough together to withstand the flood,
Storms that rage only serve to fill the sails,
Of this ship I call my own.
The Mirror of Truth 