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To discover
Self
To discover
Self
Tag: self
Looking for Myself
Sometimes
When I look for myself in the world
I’m very hard to find
When I look for myself in the world
I’m very hard to find
Not because I am so small
But because existence
Is very, very big
So I remind myself
I am not in the world
I am not of the world
I am the world
And it is me
The lesser fork
Sometimes
I’ll take the lesser fork
Though I know not where it goes
Or what I’ll see
Or if I’ll find my way
To wherever I was going
I’ll take the lesser fork
Though I know not where it goes
Or what I’ll see
Or if I’ll find my way
To wherever I was going
Sometimes
I think
The road unknown
Explores as much
The me I do not know
Which is all the more enticing
Than the me I believe is me
The Walls I Erect
The walls I erect
To protect myself from others
Define me
To protect myself from others
Define me
After a while
All anyone sees of me
Is the walls
After a while
All that is left of me
Is the walls
Reflections
My reflection
In your eyes
I see myself
More truly
In your eyes
I see myself
More truly
The Ends of the Earth
I have stood
At the ends of the Earth
And wondered
What lay beyond
At the ends of the Earth
And wondered
What lay beyond
Not the horizon
Where there is only
More water
And more land
Fire
One day in practice
Mind quiet
Body still
I sensed a flame
Burning deep within
Mind quiet
Body still
I sensed a flame
Burning deep within
As I turned
My mind to it
It rose
And rose again
Into a mighty fire
Startled
I turned away
Tamped it down
Put it away
Returning to my quiet
Post no ills
It wasn’t a completely conscious process, but the world and everything in it has grown increasingly beautiful since April Fool’s Day, 1994 — the last day of my Microsoft tenure and the first day of… I’m still not sure what. Amazing what happens when you stop seeking the ugliness, stop cleverly attacking it and the people it attracts, stop praising yourself for your cleverness.
Can I Function Without It?
Sometimes I wonder, which parts are me and which have been bestowed upon me by some arbitrary process or event, parts which are momentarily useful but, in the long term, become a distraction, or potentially lethal, like the appendix surgeons removed when I was five, moments before it killed me.
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