04-20-2011, 07:06 PM
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#59 (permalink)
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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{#9} “You, Darkness”
You, darkness, that I come from
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything—
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them!—
powers and people—
and it is possible a great presence is moving
near me.
I have faith in nights.— Rainer Maria Rilke
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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