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    Something's gotta give PrinceMyshkin's Avatar
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    Life!!

    Your most GRANDIOSE or, if you prefer, serious or profound statements on this subject are invited here, e.g.

    Life!
    You're so
    --I dunno, so
    alive!
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Smile Life.

    Dear Prince Myshkin,

    Here is one from me.
    ----------------------------------------------------
    Life.
    ............

    Life made me wonder sometimes,

    Many a time it just passed me by.

    I was watching the partying around,

    Thinking "Why am I not there?".



    Life !it was never as I wanted it be,

    It was turbulous when I had serenity,

    Suddenly it sends a bolt across,

    So your serenity is lost.


    Life!Taught me lessons,

    To wait and watch,

    And be grateful,

    For those small mercies.


    Yet! I love life,for when you,

    Cannot get what you want,

    You learn to accept,

    What is given.This Life!!! A great Teacher.

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    Life!
    It's abundance
    doled out--
    to the abundant.
    Life!
    Constantly picking,
    taking chunks
    from the deprived,
    the poor in spirit,
    becoming alms
    for the--
    abundant.


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    I wonder if life thinks about us,
    the way we think about
    life?


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    "Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon

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    Quote Originally Posted by CdnReader View Post
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    I wonder if life thinks about us,
    the way we think about
    life?


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    Oh, this is the sort of glorious turnabout that I love, like asking believers whether God believes in them. May I take this as an implicit promise that you will write about us in the voice of Life? (Ms or Mr Life...)
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    May I take this as an implicit promise that you will write about us in the voice of Life? (Ms or Mr Life...)
    Oh, what a wonderful challenge, Jer. How could I refuse?

    [...shuffle, shuffle, scribble, scribble, gnaw, scribble, ponder, gnaw...]

    Um.... I'll be back.
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    It's All in the Perspective


    Like busy ants,
    they all scurry through
    tiny winding passageways,
    gathering this and that,
    stopping occasionally
    to greet each other,
    smile, shake hands,
    then rush off again,
    pulling behind them
    tiny wagons loaded to
    overflowing with various
    odds and ends that
    they call Life....



    ...while Life watches
    from the sidelines,
    relaxed, in his Lazyboy,
    remote control in his
    outstretched hand,
    flipping casually from
    station to station,
    hoping for something
    a little less desperate,
    a little less consuming,
    a little more carefree
    and spontaneous --
    a comedy perhaps --
    (his favourites being
    Lucille Ball, Red Skelton,
    or Carol Burnett) --
    a Starbucks double shot
    and a plate of cinnamon biscotti,
    very thinly sliced,
    on the table at his elbow.

    .

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    CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
    JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    Your most GRANDIOSE or, if you prefer, serious or profound statements on this subject are invited here, e.g.

    Life!
    You're so
    --I dunno, so
    alive!
    In this I read the entire meaning of life squeezed.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    Life! What would we do without you?!

    goldenrod.

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    Life peeps in
    through a foggy window
    images in a glass, darkly
    shadows and vapors
    breathe in, breathe out...
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Marvelously written this poem to speak girth immensity. S
    Code:
    ubtle and intricate.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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