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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
~Marcus Aurelius

I had a quasi-epiphany this morning...feeling quite good about it. In fact, I'm feeling really damn good about it.

I give what I've got to give
I give what I need to live
I give what I've got to give
It's important if I wanna live
I wanna live
I want to live my life
I wanna live
I want to live my life

Song for my weakness....

Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother standing by
With my brother standing by
I said Brother, you know you know
Its a long road weve been walking on
Brother you know it is you know it is
Such a long road weve...
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go outside and look up at the sky...big ain't it?

we think we come and we go but rarely stop to think that maybe we've always been and always will be

i look around and see that nothing ever really dies

I'm really digging this song, specifically these lyrics...

I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd

So it turns out I'm a nigh-omnipotent non-corporeal entity from another plane of existence who has been "born" through a human woman. I guess when I think about it it makes perfect sense, what with the smallness and frailness and lame heart...the biologics of this world are obviously too aggressive for my species to handle. So now I have to set forth with my duty...
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If I concentrate real hard maybe I could just disappear.

Just venting...

I'm nothing special
Nothing to write home about
I'm under everybody's radar
Just another forgettable face
I don't raise my fist in the air
I don't scream at the top of my lungs
I don't dress to call all eyes to me
I don't speak well enough to gather a crowd
I live in my parents' basement
I drive a real small car...
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I want a girl who will come home early with me to watch History channel documentaries.

I want a girl who can put up with my incessant rants about the importance of superheroes.

I want a girl who lets me write bad poetry on her stomach.

I want a girl who will help me organize my cd's.

I want a girl who never leaves me...
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"From birth to death, it's just like this!"
~Zen saying

There's this fantatical preacher guy who has been showing up at school lately telling us all we're heathens, sluts, etc... I find him quite funny, though he has been more than offensive on numerous occasions, but anger is a useless emotion...I prefer to question him, his motives, his inferences about the world around him...

Why...
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"Why do you despair of unity? No true effort is in vain. Look at the fields over there. The grain sown therein has to remain in the earth for a certain time, then it sprouts, and in due time yields hundreds of its kind. The same is the case with every effort in a good cause."
~Badshah Khan

When you, O wild monk,
come to say good-bye,
we sit for a while
by the sandy creek.

On far roads,
you hold out an empty bowl;
deep in mountains,
walk on fallen flowers.

Having no master, you
puzzle out Zen on your own;
observing strict prosody,
your poems merit praise.

This going-away
has no curcumstantial cause;
a solitary cloud
has no fixed home.
~Chia...
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