04-25-2008
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 354
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Re: Go Beyond
-Yes life is a little harder and yes the decisions we made did effect other people around us in our immediate circles but is it not our place on this earth to learn to adapt? Can you honestly bring happiness to another if your not truly happy?
-but to have one life to live why not make sure that your decisions you make in life are for you and ONLY YOU, and you dont do things for others to agree upon but you do represent and stand by YOUR standards of living and loving.
these things really hit me..hard.very relavent to certain things in my life.
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Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
peace...
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