It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

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“…Slowly, what he respected before he now despises, and in this change he uses words as an implacable weapon. Human shall now mean not-animal, the female shall become a servant, belonging to man. Man shall be the entire species, of mother and father, only father shall rule, while the daughter shall not share in the spoils of the son, this son of man, the untouchable lord. Everyone will forget they are daughters and sons of the Female. This has been the first and only conflict;, also and it is yours, too which you shall must truly overcome.” (‘The Legend of the Mmulmmat’ – Dialogue between Saargan and Haal, the Black Amlom)

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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again.
So why bother in the first place?
Just this: What is above knows what is below,
But, what is below does not know what is above.
One climbs, one sees.
One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.
There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up.
When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

Rene Daumal (1908 – 1944, France)

(a contribution by Tim)

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The first speaker hides the mountain of his own faults;

his opponent searches for the other’s faults with a needle.

Having seen them take turns defeating each other,

I am uncomfortable about positing the validity of convention”.

Gedun Chopel, 1903-1951, Tibet)

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After eating the mountain, hunger is not satiated.

After drinking the ocean, thirst is not quenched.”

- Tibetan proverb

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Any student who enjoys Boabom, who tries to understand its peculiar Ways, especially Logak, will find this poem by Lao-Tzu enriched by the perspective of the Art.

Stretching a bow or filling a teacup, it is the same:
For best results, yield.

Over-harden a blade and it will soon break;
Stuff a house full of riches and it is not safe;
Define yourself by pride and arrogance and you ensure your downfall.

On completing a task, remove yourself, lightly.
This is the Way of Nature

Lao Tse

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there — lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

-Mark Twain, author (1835-1910)

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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

-George Bernard Shaw

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Every woman and man is a doctor and a builder to heal and shelter themselves”

- Nader Khalili

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I present to you Hamza El Din, an inspiring musician. The images in this video bring us to places south of old Alexandria, where Hypatia, one of the characters in Bamso, lived. I’ve included lyrics from the song heard here, Mwasha, from the album Eclipse; this poem has a great symbolic significance. – Asanaro (2009)

When she begins her gentle movement

When the gossamer nymph appears,
My beloved beauty drives me to distraction;
Surrender
Surrender
When I am enraptured by a glimpse,
My beloved beauty is a tender branch caught by the breeze;
Surrender
Surrender
Oh, my destiny, my perplexity,
No one can comfort me in my misery,
In my lamenting and suffering for love,
But for the one in the beautiful mirage;
My beloved’s beauty drives me to distraction,
Surrender,
Surrender…”

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