March 2010
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There are only 4 questions of value in life, Don Octavio:
What is sacred?
Of What is the spirit made?
What is worth Living for? and
What is worth Dying for?
The answer to each is the same: only Love!
~ Don Juan De Marco to Don Octavio in the film Don Juan DeMarco .
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“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.” — Anton Chekhov
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A beetle in the flour
A bird’s leg dragged by the surf
A wasp surrounded by ants
A paper spoiled with ink
A name heard when passing by a window
These things are capable of killing us
Sometimes we die from even less
~ Carlos Barbarito .
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What We Are and Where We Are
It is not by chance that a particular man is in a particular place at a particular time and acts according to the circumstances. That is where he is because he is what he is; and he stands to be judged for what he is.
Since the idea of responsibility carries little weight if it is confined entirely to the social realm and since any extension of responsibility...
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I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time,...”
– Franz Kafka, The Castle (via frenchtwist)
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Mark of the Eternal
Grant us to see things that bear the mark of the eternal:
The beauty that lives with loving kindness,
The transmutation of suffering into wisdom and understanding;
The divine impulse given and received.
Give us to cherish life’s perishable beauty
That it may be imperishably present with us,
And may we so pass through the things that are fleeting
As to be richer...
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