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10. Wake From the Sleep of Habit
I suppose one could take this advice two different ways: to wake from the sleep of habit, but also to wake from the habit of sleep. That is for the former, to be aware of everything you do by rote, … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, awareness, balance, Ben Franklin, habit, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Montaigne, Shakespeare, sleep
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Why Things Burn
A moment of brilliance, shot through the heart and left for dead on the side of the road; An instant of insight, unclouded by the circumstance of reason as the teardrop explodes; A spark from a fire too long extinguished, … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged awareness, confusion, disillusion, loss, Why?Things Burn
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Epiphany
Brace yourself. Epiphany does not arrive in slow reveal; long years spent over ancient tomes will like as not have no result. The right idea, when it comes, is more like lightning than the storm: a flash that cracks the … Continue reading
Do Unto Others
I was minding my own business, at the bar nursing a drink, when a big old boy slid onto the next stool; he ordered a cheap, cold one for a buck fifty, I think, then turned to me and said, … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged awareness, domestic policy, imperialism, international affairs, personal responsibility, politics, sarcasm
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If all my days were whiled
If all my days were whiled in hours of leisure, their content by mere whim alone fulfilled, perhaps I would not sense so keen a pleasure as I do when a moment seems to still into a whisper the world’s … Continue reading
This is the oyster
This is the oyster; why seek for the pearl? There’s no escape plan for leaving this world in my religion: no hereafter gold, no burning embers, no cold of Sheol. This is the medicine; why seek a pill to flee … Continue reading
Something I Can Feel
This bar’s got a jukebox; for a quarter, you can hear the latest big-time songs; there’s no need to book live entertainment if all you want is just to sing along. Yes, I’ll take requests, but not too many; don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged awareness, music, performance, personal responsibility, self-similarity, truth
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