Poem Practice.
“The treachery she was going to commit could be felt, even through text.
The receiver could only guess what would happen next.
But that was part of the punishment.
Knowing the truth, and that he could only run from it.”
Make God Proud.
They feared being alone more than they desired to do what is right. They aligned themselves with perception instead of action. They let the world tear them down before they could serve their purpose. They were robust on the outside. But within they wilted like flowers in the winter. They were both sustained and blinded by pleasure.
They were beautiful, and flawed. But one at a time, they were awakening.
Letting go.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit.”
The Pain It Took To Become So Gentle.
“Heroes journey to the special world, to come back home. Sages journey to the real world, to create a special one.”
I Will, If I Must.
“In the emptiness he found substance. In the meaningless, he found meaning. From nothing he is sustained, yet everything is within his reach.
The Art of Becoming.
At first you feel it slowly. And then suddenly, all at once it hits you.
Self Generated Thought.
“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”
-Herman Melville ‘Moby Dick’
Bring Back Bravery Before Benevolence Dies.
“Strength and wisdom cannot be obtained by living in fear.”
- Original Quote
Presence Among Presents.
“You are too concerned with what was, and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
-Master Oogway “Kung Fu Panda”
Miles.
“A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
-Miguel de Cervantes ‘Don Quixote’
Protagonistic Tendencies.
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
(The Lord of Rings)
The Non-Ordinary.
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
- Charles Bukowski
Of Monsters and Men.
“Do not worry because you have no official position. Worry about your qualifications. Do not worry because no one appreciates your abilities. Seek to be worthy of appreciation.”
-Confucius