Modesty is the foundation of all virtues. Let your neighbours discover you before you make yourself known to them. A noble heart never forces itself forward. Its words are as rare gems, seldom displayed and of great value.
i am a prairie girl straight to the bone, oh i’ll cut you off on the drive back home i spend my winters alone yeah there’s just no place quite like home
On a trail atop White-Crane’s green cliffs, My recluse friend’s home in solitude, Step and courtyard empty; water and rock, Forest and creek free of axe and fish trap. Months and years perfect old pines here. Wind and frost keep bitter bamboo sparse. Gazing deep, ancestral ways my own again…
give it time and we wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry
and we sleep in your dust because we’ve seen this all before
culture fades with tears and grace leaving us stunned hollow with shame
we have seen this all seen this all before
many tribes of a modern kind doing brand new work same spirit by side
joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine ancestral twine
slowly it fades
slowly we fade
spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, seen this all before she has, seen this all before…
In fact, everything we encounter in this world with our six senses is an inkblot test. You see what you are thinking and feeling, seldom what you are looking at.
right about now, the funk soul brother
check it out now, the funk soul brother
somedays won’t end ever and somedays pass on by,
i’ll be working here forever, at least until i die.
dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t
i’m supposed to get a raise next week, you know damn well i won’t. workin’ for a livin’ (workin’)
A man said to the Buddha, “I want Happiness.” Buddha said, first remove “I”, that’s ego, then remove “want”, that’s desire. See now you are left with only Happiness.
We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.Still, reflection can slowly bring us wisdom. We may, of course, fall back into fixed repetitive patterns again and again, but slowly we can emerge from them and change.
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