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August 4, 2023

Posted on August 4, 2023August 4, 2023 By Posts No Comments on August 4, 2023

Hope and fear is a feeling with two sides, as long as there is one there is always the other.  Hope and fear come as a sense that we lack something, we are unable to sit, relax and be ourselves.  Holding on to hope and fear robs us of the present moment.

Anything is a subject for a poem, just look around you.  You can write a poem when you are upset, when you are walking, anytime is a good time to write a poem.  The ancients where quite serious that if you wished to know about life cultivate the poet in yourself.

If you blame someone else for your failures, there is no end to the blaming. The wise see failure as an opportunity and accept all responsibility for their failures.  Fulfill your own obligations, correct all your mistakes, do what you need to do without demanding from others.

The beginning of all things lies still in the form of ideas that have yet to become manifest.  We have the creative power to lend form to these archetypes of ideas.  Once you see causes and effects with clarity, you will have success in giving actuality to these ideas.

Quote: This too will pass.

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