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the crown of gratitude is never worn by kings; to the common person who sees every tangible as a gift and every intangible as a miracle, Persia itself is woven into the rug under your feet. ::: oh but it is the thirst of the root that is miraculous. not the water's abundance. ::: the most dangerous force in nature in when we lend              love                     its                        legs... ::: "why aren't you makin' your son enlist!? they need men, didn't you hear! we're getting our asses kicked out there! ...your son's gonna grow up to be a coward." buddy my boy has already been to war... he's been spit at, beaten till he was blue--- even dragged from a car once bout twenty yards or so, before someone stopped the car. "shit...  then put'm in! tell'm he's gonna have to do somethin' otherwise i promise you he's not gonna make it to twenty-six.&qu

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the space residing between (is God) any thought, (is God) emotion (is God) or feeling, (is God;) and a prayer the Silver Lining between our reservations (is God) and our faith. ::: tend to the tender. happen to the unhappy. reach to the unreachable. (for they do not know their tenderness, their unhappiness, and their isolation are the most welcome invitations.) ::: once again, you will be able to walk into a room and on your arrival, others will notice your revival. they will ask, how? to which you will look back at the front door and say, "because i chose, with no invitation, to arrive at the house of my fears." ~ in order to revive, one must first arrive . ::: no anchor can be thrown into the ocean without a rope to pull it up; burdened on the bottom of the sea floor from our own weight, a line links us to a source whose power can carry us back to the sur

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this morning i was tossing an apple in my hands; i watched the apple roll--- surrendering itself to gravity before being caught by the other hand. pat-pat, pat-pat, pat-pat, right-left, left-right, right-left. if not for the loyalty of my hands, the apple would be on the ground; having met its face with the floor, it would have become covered in dirt and bruised all over its skin. Exactly,  said God. ::: revere the truth, deceive its conspirators, and influence the path between. ::: there are those who have faith the fruit will fall from the tree. there are those who have faith the fruit will fall from the tree and that fruit will be sweet. and then there are those who have faith the fruit will fall from the tree and that fruit will be sweet and out from the sweetness he or she will find a seed and from that seed there will not be a single satisfaction, but a seasonal harvest of bounty for the one and for t