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Hot baths in the summer heat. Leaving a trail of Epsom salt water across the house as the breeze from the open windows cools the droplets clinging to skin. Cicadas chirping louder every night, lightning bugs in my eyes, smoke on my breath. Summer nights spent contemplating life, death, and madness.
Life is Gods gift to you, the way you live your life is your gift to God. Make it a fantastic one.
1. Knowledge, to supply you with the tools necessary for your voyage.
2. Wisdom, to assure you that you are using this accumulated knowledge of the past in a manner that will best serve the discovery of your present, your now.
3. Compassion, to help you accept others whose ways may be different from yours, with gentleness and understanding, as you move with them or through them or around them on your own way.
4. Harmony, to be able to accept the natural flow of life.
5. Creativity, to help you to realize and recognize new alternatives and uncharted paths along the way.
6. Strength, to stand up against fear and move forward in spite of uncertainty and without guarantee or payment.
7. Peace, to keep you centered.
8. Joy, to keep you songful and laughing and dancing all along the way.
9. Love, to be your continual guide toward the highest level of consciousness of which man is capable.
10. Unity, which brings us back to where we started, the place where we were at one with ourselves and with all things.
It's not about what you want from life, or what you want to take from life, but about what you give to it. Everyday you take from the ground, you take from the air, you take from the beauty, you take from the flowers, what are you giving to it? We never think about what we're putting back do we? But simply what we take.
If we don't expect we have all things says Buddha. You love because you will to love, not because you demand to be loved in return. You give because you will to give not because you expect something in return or someone to pay you on the back. Flowers bloom because they must, not because there are people fawning over them and saying beautiful flower! You live because you must!
The faces of the people you love are not going to be the same in the morning. And neither is yours. Don't miss it.
You see what death can teach you? Death isn't a spooky thing. Death teaches us the value of time. And then we don't frit away our time. We realize how precious it all is. We realize we don't have forever. Death teaches us to look. And to see that the people that we love aren't gonna be the same all the time. We don't look at each other anymore. We're so busy doing things of consequence that we haven't stopped to look at each other. You know that you won't be the same in the morning?
The only way to accept life is to accept death. Death will teach us that there is a limit.
