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Aug 16 2005, 03:28 PM
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Jump-Rope Rhyme (Tom Hansen)
Tat tvam asi: thou art that- that leaf, that tree, that cow, that cat, that cloud, that sky, that moon, that sun, that you, that I- for all are one. So here you are and there you go and who you were you hardly know. I think this I is only me: a drip, a drop, but not the sea. Yet when I wake from all these dreams, then like the snake, I'll shed what seems: this mask, this skin, this ball and chain. I will begin to fall like rain. Our heart's last home: the wind-whipped foam, the sweet, deep sea. Tat tvam asi. "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. " "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. " George Bernard Shaw |
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Sep 22 2005, 05:08 PM
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Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth Must borrow it's mirth, It has trouble enough of it's own Sing, and the hills will answer, Sigh, it is lost on the air The echoes bound To a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you Grieve, and they turn and go They want full measure Of all your pleasure But they do not want your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many Be sad, and you lose them all There are none to decline Your nectared wine But alone you must drink life's gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Suceed and give And it helps you live But it cannot help you die There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train But one by one We must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. " "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. " George Bernard Shaw |
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