Life
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The Life You Give: Isaac Newton *1642
Isaac Newton, born January 4, 1643, [New Style], in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, is the physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light integrated the phenomena of colours into the science of light and laid the foundation for…
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Honesty is seldom naked
It is often hiding
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My Resolution…
is not a set goal. I am resolute.I live in resolution.I vibrate in resolution.I fall asleep, and stand awake,stand asleep, and fall awake,not resolute to a goalbut in the trajectory —- that of building. My resolution is not a set goal—- not set, not a state to be reachedbut beinginhaling and exhaling the joy and…
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The Life You Give: Rudyard Kipling *1865
Rudyard Kipling, born Joseph Rudyard Kipling on December 30, 1865, in Bombay [now Mumbai], India, is the short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Life Kipling’s…
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…outside the Box
This concept, this perception mode refers to a reaching out into a realm outside a common structure. I need to point to this common structure, this outside realm, this box: these are not the shape of one self but that of society, either imposed or inspired by social and familiar norm.
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Lost or Found
Pursuit, escape; submissive, aggressive; matter, mind; searching, finding; materialize, fume; center, disperse; understand, reject; self, mirror less; negation, swallow; artist, being;
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at sixty-three
On this path taken (and given) I have no regretsNot truly Today I am the master of lifeBut starting I was a lost slave of life
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The Life You Give: Steve Biko *1946
Steve Biko, born Bantu Stephen Biko on December 18, 1946, in King William’s Town, South Africa, was founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. His death from injuries suffered while in police custody made him an international martyr for South African Black nationalism. After being expelled from high school for political activism, Biko…
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Surrender
Out of the mouths of many beings in transition — coming out of their hearts or out of their intellect — I hear that surrendering happens in the moment of doubt, tribulation, in the face of difficulties. This notion makes me doubt two things: —- that acceptance, surrendering, or giving in completely onto life, is…
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Saffron equates to Life
It is beautiful It is simple It is complex It is natural It is recognized on color It is more out of its context It is irrelevant of context It is insignificant in naming but in being
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In Conversation
If love is an inherent draw towards All (as I am convinced it is), and a need of joy in belonging, far beyond physicalities may be conceived; if love is merely our inner compass for balance, while guiding us towards All, then it may be said that our duty within self, and towards All is…
