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11th August 2021 03:56
Link to Post #1701
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Re: The Great Quotes thread
′′ Fear ′′ Khalil Gibran
They say before entering the sea,
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the way
that she has travelled, from the peaks,
the mountains, the long winding road
which crosses forests and villages,
and sees in front of her such a vast ocean
that entering it doesn't seem anything else
than having to disappear forever.
But there's no other way.
The river can't go back.
No one can go back.
Going back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
and to enter the ocean.
It's only when entering the ocean
that fear will disappear,
because it's only then
that the river will know it's not about
to disappear into the ocean,
but to become ocean.
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11th August 2021 20:27
Link to Post #1702
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Re: The Great Quotes thread
Undo the clench
Remember the opening
Go right through the back of your body
And touch the timeless field.
In the moment of contact
Fall a little, and then keep falling.
Dissolve all remaining holding
By becoming a comet
Free-falling and burning up
Into the infinite Dark.
Fall and break open and dissolve
Until there is only Transparency
Where “you” and everything
At last merge and become One.
James Marshall
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19th August 2021 13:32
Link to Post #1703
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Re: The Great Quotes thread
'The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself… Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken
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19th August 2021 16:14
Link to Post #1704