If not these few words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
[from the book 'Rogue of Gor' by John Norman]
we have refused
again and again
Until now
Until now
- David Whyte
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| "Is there a human animal beneath the conditioned ideologies? It seems not improbable. We may torture and mutilate the human animal; we may deny that it exists; but it lies within us, in the chemistry of every living cell in our bodies. In denying it, we truly, deny only ourselves. In hating it, we hate our own hearts, and our own blood. We are not so terrible, really. It is only that we are men and women, and not something else. Perhaps it is wrong to be men and women. Perhaps we should be something else. Perhaps we should consider ourselves images and inventions. Doubtless the question is difficult. It is always hard to know the truth and pretend not to believe it. Perhaps we should not be men and women. Perhaps we should not be true to ourselves. But even if we should deny ourselves, and starve, and torture and frustrate ourselves, we would still, in the end, be ourselves. We would remain men and women, only then, perhaps, mutilated men and women. We are what we are, and will remain so, regardless of what we may be taught to believe. Fearing ourselves does not make us not ourselves. Can the human reality, in the fullness of it's truth, be truly so fearful a thing. I do not think so........." [from the book 'Rogue of Gor' by John Norman] |
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| This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now - David Whyte |
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| "Our physical and psychological identity arises from the false idea of an 'I'. It grows from an illusionary seed, so how could it possibly be real? Just as you can't see your own face, only a reflection in a mirror, so the 'I' does not exist apart from your illusionary identity." - Tibetan Buddhist sage Nagarjuna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other does not make sense." - Rumi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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