vague doubts that I live with

Lisa Grey - mixed media study/textile art

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Every moment is weird and special. We just fail to notice that most of the time, which is a shame.

Brad Warner

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sutter buttes northern california

these mountains
are dark islands
against the blue sea
of the sky
befriended by the sun
the moon the clouds
and all of the stars
and also by me
I sail around
those islands in an old boat
that is shaped
something like a man

james lee jobe

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Threaded through the dark tangle of our misery are strings of light. We are no more responsible for the light than for the dark, but surely it is wise to celebrate the beauty of the light that has manifested in and through us. 

Matthew Gindin, “Putting to Rest the Myth of the Heroic Self”

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that sweet taste on your tongue

sugar in the deep heat you can taste it
a long walk on a hot day nowhere special
the taste of life the taste of death
on your tongue on your lips
open your mouth my friend no wider
walk a little farther no even more

james lee jobe

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In trading the pleasures of an ordinary life for a meditative life, you're trading candy for gold.  

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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the choices we make

behind me in the old mirror I see
an angel strangling the ghost of my father
in truth the room is empty but for me
and the vague doubts that I live with
I choose to ignore that scene again
settling in a chair I open at random
the book of my truths and my joys
"trust your heart" it says that james each of us lives with the choices we make

james lee jobe

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To praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts. 

Nagarjuna

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