failure is beautiful - failure is freedom

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Looking around

you can easily see

that a lot of streets in america

are named after famous slave owners

and trees

of course I don’t mind the trees

at all

james lee jobe 

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Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand – relax. 

Osho

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LINK: Prisms, a poem by Laura Riding Jackson

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DOWN IN THE BOTTOM, Howlin' Wolf 

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Damn all naysayers and speak the truth.

You need not hide any longer.

Roll the stone away and exit the tomb --

Just like Jesus. Remove that mask

and toss it over your shoulder as you go.

Now you may use the name

that you have chosen for yourself.

Now you may live

how your heart tells you to live.

Damn all naysayers and speak the truth.

be bold in thought and deed,

and trust your instincts, always,

even when your instincts might be wrong.

-- especially when your instincts might be wrong.

Failure is beautiful, failure is freedom.

Hide no longer. Walk into the light.

Damn them all, you're free.

james lee jobe 

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. 

Alan Watts

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LINK: The Pipe, a poem by BY STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ

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In the room of seven windows, one window faces your doom;

there's no escaping it, look through that one first. Or none at all.

The second window looks at what you have learned,

so naturally another window faces that

which you have failed to learn.

It's a life, we're human. Things don't always turn out well,

but sometimes they do, and so the other windows

open to possibility, coincidence, strength,

those things that are random, and reason.

May I offer my advice? Open them all, open them wide

and be ready to fly away on whatever wind blows through.

james lee jobe

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Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child. 

Takuan Sōhō

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I wish you all good health and the strength that comes from good health. And also for that other kind of strength, the kind you can't see.

james lee jobe 

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No matter how many times we’ve thought that thought in the past, the very fact that we can shift to another thought reminds us it’s not permanent.

Shaila Catherine

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