Favorite Aphorisms. . .

We are the cabbage and the rose at once.  Earthy and ethereal at once.
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Memories are the bridge to the future.
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To go over the same road again and again, until the pain as well as the joy no longer overwhelms, requires tough love.
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Life was not meant to be a vehicle of convenience.  Breathing itself is an imposition of sorts at times.
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Education is a thing of the heart and spirit and no learned institution  can impart what is necessary to complete a life.
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Man can strike the essence of what is wrong in an area the heavens cannot reach.
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Man must process an enormous amount of garbage in the place where integration of the human is of vital interest.
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The sounds of mortal life cut deeply and quickly and with great pain to those who have ears to hear.
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Television is the answer to a lifetime prayer for some.  To be entertained without having to participate is the ultimate dream.
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It is always more enlightening to apply criticism of an Other’s behavior to oneself.
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Rehearsed rhetoric is a game to use for one’s own justification.
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Humanity’s progress comes quarter inch by quarter inch.  Not even baby steps it seems.
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Mass evolution is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms; never a fact and never a reality.

photo by John S. Hallissey