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Compensation. . .
There comes a time when even the simplest body language speaks to one and one has to listen. It is not an easy thing to do, this confrontation, but it requires some thought. It is easy to anger, but a dumb thing to do. And I try hard not to be dumb. But looking with…
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When The Real Money Is Counted. . . .
The Teacher Continues. . . . When it comes to memory, how do we separate what is currently ours? Yet the question should be, what is not ours when we are part of humankind? What can we separate from since we do not know what it is we have participated in since time began? Have…
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To Use These Hands. . . .
To Use These Hands. . . . As dawn breaks, my fingers of both hands curl about each other and I marvel at their slimness, their ability to elicit the feel of themselves, each digit wrapped around the other. And I think that nothing, no other world will ever make me feel such blessedness as…
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The Significance Of The Common Search
The Teacher speaks and the scribe takes dictation. . . . As long as the desire to accomplish is within us, there will be sufficient time to do what needs be done. As long as what it is we wish to do is for others and for ourselves, there will be sufficient time. Time being…
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We Are The Reflection. . . .
We Are The Reflection . . . . of what we worship. We may not think in those terms, but our actions reflect what we think to be highest and best within us. For some seem to have come a long way and they mean to go even further. And push to extremes the psyche…
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Coming To The Altar
The Teachers Speak. . . . What is suppressed is what we are most afraid of and fear carries a sub label of secretive which must go along with the word afraid. Even in today’s world of reality shows, there are still those who carry their fears close to the chest. And often do not…
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Staff Of Life
Staff Of Life Unsteady on his legs, I watched my then toddler grandson bend down and pick up his book. In one motion, he touched the book to his lips. In another time, when I was young, I saw his great grandfather move with just such a motion to pick up a piece of bread…
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Intensity Of Purpose
Intensity of Purpose One of the first unhappy side effects of the medications taken for my cardiac problem was that it took away my morning exuberance that had me thrusting my feet to the floor all the days of my life till then. (yes, I am grateful they have kept me breathing!) But without my…
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Times Such As These
We are told that hearing you will hear and not understand and seeing you will see and not perceive. Simple words meaning simple things? But of course you see and of course you hear unless physical impairments prevent us. But it is even more than that. In the process there are the cries in crisis…
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To Regain Our Knowledge (that we are safe)
One of my reader’s comment on a poem of mine was that it gave her a safe feeling. And after much thought, I came to some conclusions. The first being to educate ourselves to broaden our premises so that the unknown will become a known. The narrower our premises the more outside our frame of…