Guest guest Posted April 13, 2001 Report Share Posted April 13, 2001 > Excellent verse was, is, of your poetry on this Good Friday... thank you! > Below is one daily of what the Gator puts out to a private listing titled... > Love, Gator > > The Center of the Circle... Apr 13 2001 Good Friday > > There are risks we must take, risks that are frightening but essential. > There must come a call to step out of the darkness and then we must answer > this call, answer it without caring for the consequences, for the obstacles > of success or failure. A Persian poet and mystic describes how this path is > not for the "brittle, easily-broken, glass-bottle people": > "A self-sacrificing way, but also a warrior's way, and not for brittle, > easily-broken, glass-bottle people. The soul is tested here by sheer terror, > as a sieve sifts and separates genuine from fake. And this road is full of > footprints! Companions have come before. They are your ladder. Use them!" > Others have gone before us, have tasted the real meaning of freedom and the > bitter wind of Truth. They leave behind their footprints and words of > encouragement, like "That which is to be your fate, face it!" Face it, it is > most difficult to live your dream, but even more difficult is to live > without a dream at all. > Love is our center... > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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