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"Oh! If the doors of your sanctuary should crumble by themselves
O Ceres, you who reigned in Eleusis!
Drunk with enthusiasm, I would
shiver with your nearness,
I would understand your revelations,
I would interpret the lofty meaning of the images, I would hear
the hymns at the 'gods' banquets,
the lofty maxims of their counsel.

Even your hall\vays have ceased to echo, Goddess!
The...
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"So we wanted to part? Thought it both good and wise?
Why, then, why did the act shock us as murder would?
Ah, ourselves we know little,
For within us a god commands.

Wrong that god? And betray him who created for us
Meaning, life, all we had, him who inspired and moved,
Who protected our loving,
This, this one thing I cannot do.

But...
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“The auto-telic experience, or flow, lifts the course of life to a different level. Alienation gives way to involvement, enjoyment replaces boredom, helplessness turns into a feeling of control, and psychic energy works to reinforce the sense of self, instead of being lost in the service of external goals. When experience is intrinsically rewarding life is justified in the present, instead of being held hostage...
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"We leave the frozen

north for the half-frozen

southwest, leave

the driveway, climb

the hill, a December

sun falling behind

the mountain or what passes

for one in this adobe

state, the ghost

white of frigid chamisa

falling everywhere and my eyes

so open

they begin listening

at the periphery, the particulate

air, where they snag

on a pitiful scrub

pine, pulling

its tough green...
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(done by Nathan Sawaya).

"Is not the kernel of the nature
Of men in the heart?"

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)