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Here are some of my favorite poems:
"I Know The Way You Can Get" by HafizI know the way you can get
When you have not had a drink of Love:Your face hardens,
Your sweet muscles cramp.
Children become concerned
About a strange look that appears in your eyes
Which even begins to worry your own mirror
And nose.Squirrels and birds sense your sadness
And call an important conference in a tall tree.
They decide which secret code to chant
To help your mind and soul.Even angels fear that brand of madness
That arrays itself against the world
And throws sharp stones and spears into
The innocent
And into one's self.O I know the way you can get
If you have not been drinking Love:You might rip apart
Every sentence your friends and teachers say,
Looking for hidden clauses.You might weigh every word on a scale
Like a dead fish.You might pull out a ruler to measure
From every angle in your darkness
The beautiful dimensions of a heart you once
Trusted.I know the way you can get
If you have not had a drink from Love's
Hands.That is why all the Great Ones speak of
The vital need
To keep remembering God,
So you will come to know and see Him
As being so Playful
And Wanting,
Just Wanting to help.That is why Hafiz says:
Bring your cup near me.
For all I care about
Is quenching your thirst for freedom!All a Sane man can ever care about
Is giving Love!
From "On Reason and Passion" by Khalil Gibran
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
Unknown Title by Rumi
I'm Not A Christian, Or Jew, Or Muslim, Or Hindu. Not A Buddhist, Sufi, Or Zen.
Not Any Religion, Or Cultural System.
I'm Not From The East Or The West.
Not Out Of The Ocean, Or Up From The Ground.
Not Natural Or Ethereal, Not Composed Of Elements At All.
I Do Not Exist, I'm Not An Entity, In This World Or The Next.
I Did Not Descend From Adam And Eve. Or Any Story.
My Place Is Placeless, My Trace Traceless, Neither Body Nor Soul.
I Belong To The Beloved.
I've Seen The Two World As One, And That One Called Two And None.
First. Last. Outer. Inner.
Only That Breath, Breathing.
Human.
"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
"Addiction is the most human thing there is." Gabor Maté
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin
“Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it. Without first questioning the health of society, what is the good of helping misfits to conform to society?” Krishnamurti
"Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away." Frida Kahlo
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?" Charles Bukowski
"For your faith to be rock solid, your heart needs to be as soft as a feather." Shams
"We commit to reality at all costs, knowing that's where we will find ultimate serenity." Unknown
"It is from here I wonder about the agreements we make with ourselves to create peace." Part of a poem from Fisher Poets Festival 2024
"Trust, but verify." Ronald Reagan
"Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else." Glenn Greenwald
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music." Aldous Huxley
"If you wish to be a warrior prepare to get broken, if you wish to be an explorer prepare to get lost, and if you wish to be a lover, prepare to be both." Daniel Saint
"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable." Socrates
Here are some of my favorite books:
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What I'm Listening To
Check out playlists I've created, my favorite artists, and see what I'm listening to every month.I make playlists of my favorite songs each month and my favorite genres every year.
Such as 24-01 (January 2024) and Favorite EDM 2023