The first bit reminded me of my Campbell...um...I wrote something quoting him somewheres....*rummages through digital closets and cuts and pastes*
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
What you have to do you do with play.
Life is without meaning, until you bring meaning to it.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
The world is perfect. It is a mess. It's always been a mess.
We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out ourselves.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that's waiting for us.
The untrusting Hoarder, the one who wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.
You are a match for this world. So do not despair.
The dragon which keeps from your holy quest has written on every scale "Thou Shalt" and you must kill him.
You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. For to walk a path means to walk someone else's way.
It is by going to the Abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble...there lies your treasure.
The cave you are afraid to enter, turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that is so dreaded has become the center.
You find the jewel and it draws you off.
In loving the spiritual, you cannot despise the earthly.
The precepts of nature cannot be evil.
The purpose of the journey is compassion.
The goal is to bring the jewel back to the world. To join the two things togather. You must return with the bliss. The world will resist your return.
Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.
What did you do as a child that created timelessness, what made you forget time?
If you want life you will get it. But it is on the other end of a chasm that looks very large...but as soon as you decide to jump across it ends up behind you.
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Pretty basic stuff....but it was just a correlation in my head from your first "stanza" if you will, be that as it may. ((I've found if you add those two sentences after anything you sound smert))
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Date: 2006-08-11 09:22 am (UTC)The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
What you have to do you do with play.
Life is without meaning, until you bring meaning to it.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
The world is perfect. It is a mess. It's always been a mess.
We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out ourselves.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that's waiting for us.
The untrusting Hoarder, the one who wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.
You are a match for this world. So do not despair.
The dragon which keeps from your holy quest has written on every scale "Thou Shalt" and you must kill him.
You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. For to walk a path means to walk someone else's way.
It is by going to the Abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble...there lies your treasure.
The cave you are afraid to enter, turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that is so dreaded has become the center.
You find the jewel and it draws you off.
In loving the spiritual, you cannot despise the earthly.
The precepts of nature cannot be evil.
The purpose of the journey is compassion.
The goal is to bring the jewel back to the world. To join the two things togather. You must return with the bliss. The world will resist your return.
Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.
What did you do as a child that created timelessness, what made you forget time?
If you want life you will get it. But it is on the other end of a chasm that looks very large...but as soon as you decide to jump across it ends up behind you.
*********
Pretty basic stuff....but it was just a correlation in my head from your first "stanza" if you will, be that as it may. ((I've found if you add those two sentences after anything you sound smert))