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Milestones.

  • Jul. 5th, 2008 at 8:20 AM
C'est Moi!
To whom it may concern:

So in two days, I'll be thirty.

Who knows if I'll actually write an entry on my real birthday - I've been oddly busy and wrapped up in all kinds of processes, activities, and details.

I'm going through all these little contemplative puzzles. It's like the Cliff's notes of my Saturn Return. Where am I going, what am I doing, have I done enough, do I love enough, why have I lost so many people I love, why am I so blessed, etc. I look at the past with fondness, a touch of sadness in places, but no regrets. I live in the present fully and joyfully, paying attention to details that matter. I face the future with hope, a humbling dose of fear, and confidence.

I look at my life, which is in transition; I look at moving away from this area for the first time; I look at following a vocation - not a paycheck - to where it takes me, and trying that way for a while; I look at growing up, at what I've learned, at the person I've become and the person I'm becoming.

I feel pretty good about all this.

So I don't know how much more of this journal I have left in me. Ten days after my birthday will be my sixth anniversary with it, but I don't know if there's good reason to keep it going. I'll always need an outlet, but this well seems to have run dry.

In any case, I need to go start my day. There's much celebrating to be done tonight, and I need to cross all my i's and dot all my t's today.

Hope you're having a beautiful morning, afternoon, evening, week, month, life.

Love,

Me.

Worth Knowing:

Do not weep; do not wax indignant.

Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

- Margaret Mead

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"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."

- Pearl Buck

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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Le hiss, le hiss… I am the snake, and you have charmed me, yes?"

-Pepe LePieu

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"The ultimate source of peace in the family, the country, and the world is altruism."

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Meaning of Life

***

"Champagne for my real friends – real pain for my sham friends."

-Monty Brogan, The 25th Hour

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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility."

-Khalil Gibran

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"...amor cuerdo no es amor..."

(...prudent love isn't love...)

- José Martí

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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

-Mahatma Mohondas Gandhi

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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."

-Theodore Isaac Rubin

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"I'm a peace loving decoy/
ready for retaliation..."
- Gorillaz, "Dirty Harry"

***

Everything before the but is bullshit.

***

"If you can walk,
you can dance;
If you can talk,
you an sing."

-Zimbabwean (sp?) proverb

***

"Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you."

-Frank O'Hara

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"There is neither this world nor the world beyond nor happiness for the one who doubts."

-Bhagavad Gita

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"Marla... the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it... but you can't."

-The Narrator, Fight Club

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Change only takes place through action. Frankly speaking, not through prayer or meditation but through action.

-The Dalai Lama

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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

-Siddhartha Guatama (The Buddha)

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

-The Dalai Lama

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"Ancient Music"

The main thing
to be against
is Death!

Everything Else
is a
Chump!

-Amiri Baraka

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"This is Just to Say"

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

-William Carlos Williams

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