CXLV
What most people call
choice
Is just left or right,
up or down, right or wrong,
Yes or no, good or bad,
stop or go,
Rarely all or none.
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Makes
a miserly soul cackle with glee.
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Trying
to be good is an oxymoron.
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Likely
nobody wants anything from the beggar
Except
to see him move on as quickly as possible.
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The
abyss is not frightening to those
Who
come to it naturally.
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Good
health is a matter of degrees.
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Never
assume it to be any difference.
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If
there were a set of rules that was absolute,
Wouldn’t
we all know and follow them?
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Humility?
Practically
impossible to achieve.
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Hope
you’re in joy.
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It’s
like looking into a holograph picture,
At
first seeing one thing, then another.
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As
you breathe, so does your universe.
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Without
wisdom, leadership is bound to falter.
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Challenging
to just be in time.
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Just
a different day.
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Everything and nothing
is original.
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Power, fame and fortune
Does strange things to
people.
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There can be wealth in
poverty
And poverty in wealth.
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Busy or still, nothing
is changed.
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Forever after what?
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Romance is a pleasant
façade.
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Shake up a can of soda.
All those carbonated
bubbles
Are like individual
dreams interacting
Within the way of the
can.
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It is you who
fabricates the need to justify your life.
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Spend more time in
wonder.
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The body will take the
required breath
In order to fulfill it’s
journey in time.
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Guaranteed
That when someone
Comes up with a new
concept,
Others will react to it
in so many ways;
Some seriously, others
with dogmatic gullibility.
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You can only account
for your Self.
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Nothing you will ever do
or can ever do,
Will make the dream of
consciousness real.
There is no return once
you see this.
You will always
recollect
That it is illusion
No matter how you
struggle to forget.
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Now is the cutting edge
of time’s engine.
The rest is the baggage
in the boxcars.
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Real teaching is not
about rigid, dogmatic assertion.
It is the reflection of
knowledge and insight,
Which others will see
and own,
Or shrug off and
forget.
It cannot be forced.
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True science is akin to
true religion
Where wisdom is used to
define
The context and
direction.
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How many reasons we
concoct
To disparage ourselves
and others.
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What is sacred, what is
not?
Perhaps everything,
perhaps nothing.
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What one often wonders
about critics
Is what they would
really create
If they had the
courage.
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Is anything born of
thought truly sacred?
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DNA has more to say
about you
Than you likely ever
will.
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The veil wraps you like
a mummy in its delusion.
Cutting through the
fabric is arduous
Until it is not.
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Those who see beyond
the veil wander an arduous journey,
Often aided by those
who have previously discerned the pathless.
What a relief a few
words can bring the world-weary beginner.
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From time’s confusion,
all doubt is erased.
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Are you the whim of
time,
Or is time the whim of
you?
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Universes come and go,
bang and crunch.
Is there some sort of
reincarnating lineage?
Or just oneness
devising new bubble creations,
Ever the same Soul
holographed in every version?
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Obvious, isn’t it?
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One man’s god is
another’s devil,
It is the relativity of
all value.
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Have you ever really
moved?
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The mind of a mystic is
perpetual revolution.
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There are some
seriously screwed-up beings in this world.
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Breathe away the fear.
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It is the clarity
without which form cannot exist.
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Life ain’t Hollywood.
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There are the few
And there are the
proud.
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Lord, save you from
yourself.
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Life is too short to be
angry and upset all the time.
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How distant even
yesterday seems.
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All memories extinguish
sooner or later.
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You aren’t quite as
care-free
As you’d have others to
believe.
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Another wanderer.
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And who is lost, and
who is found?
Need you ask another?
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The rank and file are
ranked and filed.
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Try and get a life next
time.
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Lie that it may be, the
mind in time
Seems unable to
function without belief.
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You reincarnate daily,
countless times.
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The entire human drama
Is a bald-faced
Self-deception.
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So unnecessary.
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An endless tale of
wandering.
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It begins again.
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More muddied thinking.
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Chewing on imagination.
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Another squandered
life.
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Discovery and
re-discovery.
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Any life is sparked by
its interests.
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Somebody forget to tell
you that you were old.
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Don’t know what I am
Other than I am That I
Am,
I think.
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Even with all our
capacity for measurement,
We are still so
ignorant.
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Every action has a
consequence,
Even if only to get you
to the next one.
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Shallow as a
drought-stricken stream.
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There’s the way they
say it is.
And there’s the way it
really is.
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Another war of
translation.
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Racing toward oblivion.
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For someone who talks
so much about simplicity,
You certainly aren’t.
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Sometimes they might
even be
Within shouting
distance.
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So many tell you
That you should want
all this,
But you really don’t.
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Surrender to reality,
not the world.
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Really man, it doesn’t
really matter.
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Faster and faster and
faster…
But in what direction?
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Another one for the
“Great Moments of Inattention” file.
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The same tired stories
Keep getting written
over and over.
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Interesting what is
deemed newsworthy,
And what is not.
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Intelligence once again
takes a back seat.
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God, if there be such a
supreme entity,
Was also born of
stardust.
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What hath nature
wrought in us?
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A component world.
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Just because you’re
young
Doesn’t mean you have
to be stupid.
Just because you’re old
doesn’t make you wise.
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You are the proof.
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One person starts a rumor,
And the herd follows
suit.
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Those who imagine
heaven often create hell.
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Ultimately, it’s all
equal,
But its not always
equally interesting,
Or tolerable.
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Don’t make others
responsible for your happiness.
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Whining about your
situation
Generally doesn’t
change anything.
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Up, out and about.
Another day of
infinity.
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How much of what you
will do today
Is absolutely
necessary?
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Just another example of
the antics of stupidity.
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If there’s a mistake to
be made,
You will probably be
the one to find it.
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A mirage whose destiny
is unknown.
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Just another thing to
wake up to.
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You’re here because you
here.
Why fabricate an
excuse?
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Believe it when it
happens.
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The challenge of life
Is learning to juggle
the details.
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Build a bridge and they
will come.
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If there is a god
It is a very twisted,
Amoral supreme being
With which we are
dealing.
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Is someone who is
concerned
About what you wear, do
or say,
Someone you want as a
friend?
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Consider it a
scientific experiment.
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I don’t share your
fear, sorry.
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Believing in Santa
Claus doesn’t make him real.
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Two thousand years
And counting.
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Yawn-worthy.
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Detachment stills the
mind.
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How impossible to
please so many.
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Don’t want it now,
either.
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We must all suffer to
live.
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The ironic thing is
that it really isn’t that great a story.
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The
Stillness Before Time (Compendium)
©
Michael J. Holshouser 2009
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