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If I cannot forgive myself
For all the blunders
That I have made
Over the years,
Then how can I proceed?
How can I ever
Dream perfection-dreams?
Move, I must, forward.
Fly, I must, upward.
Dive, I must, inward,
To be once more
What I truly am
And shall forever remain.

Sri Chinmoy

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky

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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet;

where movement is not all movement
and stillness is not all stillness;

where the idea and the form,
the within and the without, are united;

where infinite becomes finite,
yet not losing its infinity.
Tagore

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Rain by Tu Fu

Roads not yet glistening, rain slight,
Broken clouds darken after thinning away.
Where they drift, purple cliffs blacken.
And beyond -- white birds blaze in flight.

Sounds of cold-river rain grown familiar,
Autumn sun casts moist shadows. Below
Our brushwood gate, out to dry at the village
Mill: hulled rice, half-wet and fragrant

Tu Fu

serenity
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Here it is – right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.

Huang Po

Why I stopped letting CLM watch the kids

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A Clear Midnight

THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.

Walt Whitman

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“Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory”

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
George Moore