Category: man verse
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Old Story
Be not the slave of your own past plunge into sublime seas, drive deep, and swim far So you shall come back with self respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dear Human
Dear Human: You’ve got it all wrong . You didn’t come here to master unconditional love. That is where you came from and where you’ll return. You came here to learn personal love. Universal love. Messy love . Sweaty love. Crazy love . Broken love. Whole love . Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace…
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Wild Man Weekend
We enter through a hole in the earth, In silence we scream,shedding our skin. Some easily become invisible among the trees. For others the first wind hitting is a shocking slap,a first breath, No time to be taken gently By fathers’ hands firmly supporting to mama’s soft belly. Oh! how I love to lay in…
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On Warriors and Greed
Warriors don’t venture into the unknown out of greed. Greed works only in the world of ordinary affairs. To venture into that terrifying loneliness of the unknown, one must have something greater than greed: love. One needs love for life, for intrigue, for mystery. One needs unquenchable curiosity and guts galore. -Carlos Casteneda from The…
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Some words on Shadow
As I descend into basement shadows, I am washed in red. Smoothness is not a choice on the earthly plane. As light reveals, so also shadows are spawned. With this I must learn to rock my ignorance to sleep to await its hungry cry. I must feed my insincerity its milky gruel. I must give…
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A Warrior….
Listen to me carefully and remember every word. A warrior is not a soldier. A soldier is trained to fight and follow orders. A warrior is trained to think for himself and fight only as a last resort. A warrior is the first to begin and the last to quit . He laughs the hardest…
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Great Men
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ G. K. Chesterton
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Your Garden
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The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you…
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On Fathers
How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream. He’s in your power. You twist his arm. But you’re not sure it was he that stole your money. You feel calmer and you decide to let him go free. Or he’s the one, as in a dream of mine, I must pull from the…