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[font=arial,verdana]When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.[/font]
-Henri Nouwen
 
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YOU KNOW YOUR LIVING IN 2004 WHEN:

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in 10 years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with your friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You go home after along day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.

7. You make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.

8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.

11. Your boss doesn't have your ability to do your job.

12. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.

13. Every commercial has a website at the bottom of the screen.

14. Leaving your house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.

15. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

16. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : ) : )

17. You're reading this and nodding and laughing. ^_^

18. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

19. You are too busy to notice there is no #9 on this list.

20. You actually scrolled back to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.

AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.:eek:
 
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Creation Dream (4:02)

centered on silence
counting on nothing
i saw you standing on the sea
and everything was
dark except for
sparks the wind struck from your hair
sparks that turned to
wings around you
angel voices mixed with seabird cries
fields of motion
surging outward
questions that contain their own replies...

you were dancing
i saw you dancing
throwing your arms toward the sky
fingers opening
like flares
stars were shooting everywhere
lines of power
bursting outward
along the channels of your song
mercury waves flashed
under your feet
shots of silver in the shell-pink dawn...

-Bruce Cockburn (Ottawa 20/12/78)
 
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"There's a certain kind of snobbery in the independent world. It's like, 'I'm a cutting-edge guy, I wear a beret, I hang out in coffee shops, and I don't like anything that is not some crappy little movie where all the girls wear pointy glasses and all the guys are grapefruit salesmen and the movie has no point.'"
(on the independent film industry)

~Billy Bob Thornton
 
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"Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep---that death is slumber
And that it shapes the busy thoughts outnumber,
Of those who wake and live."
Shelley

"Of human love! Thou Spirit given
On earth, of all we hope in heaven!
Which fall'st into the soul like rain,
upon the Siroc-wither'd plain."
Edgar Allen Poe
 
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What is life to you?
The butterflies among the tulips
The children rolling down the grassy hills
The sun feeding the seeds of fertility
Finding someone whose sensitive expression
Makes you cry… ~Susan Polis Schutz
 
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We have not come to take prisoners

We have not come here to take prisoners,
but to surrender ever more deeply
to freedom and joy.

We have not come into this exquisite world
To hold ourselves hostage from love.

Run my dear,
from anything
that may not strengthen
your precious budding wings.

Run like hell my dear,
from anyone likely
to put a sharp knife
into the sacred, tender vision
of your beautiful heart.

We have a duty to befriend
those aspects of obedience
that stand outside of our house
and shout to reason
"O please, O please,
come out and play."

For we have not come here to take prisoners
or to confine our wondrous spirits,

But to experience ever and ever more deeply
our divine courage, freedom, and
Light!

-Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky)
 
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Faithful in your love, my fame has spread, candle-like
At the home of the homeless, I make my bed, candle-like.
Day and night, from sorrows, sleep escapes from my eyes
Sick of being apart, my eyes are teary, red, candle-like.
Scissors of sorrows have cut my patience' string
Flame of your love burns upon my weary head, candle-like.
If my bloody tears fail to bring color to my cheeks
How else can my secret tales ever be said, candle-like?
Amidst water & fire, my head is busy with your thoughts
While my heart flooded with tears it needs to shed, candle-like.
In the night of separation, send butterfly of union
Else from your pain the world I'll burn & shred, candle-like.
Without your beautiful vision, my day is night
With the love I have bred, my flaws I dread, candle-like.
My patience is eroding, like a mountain from sorrows' rains
In the ocean of your love, path of fire I tread, candle-like.
Like dawn, I blow one breath to see your face
Show yourself O Beloved, else I'll be dead, candle-like.
Honor me one night with your union, my friend
Let your light, light up my house & spread, candle-like.
Fire of your love caught on Hafiz's head
When will my heart's fire, my tears wed, candle-like?
-Haifiz (translator unknown :( )
 
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