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"What's in there, Yoda?" "Only what you take with you" ... We fear most ... OURSELVES.

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/14/2017 3:29:00 PM

GREAT YODA KU!!! I enjoyed this.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/15/2017 2:01:00 AM

Thank you so much, Andrea - I'm so pleased you enjoyed this - it was fun! We need to have fun with poetry, too ... I sometimes get bogged down in "heavy" topics, and have to let loose some WHIMSY and joy!! :-)

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 6/9/2017 9:09:00 AM

Excellent, Greg! I'm not afraid, Greg (in my best yoda voice: you will be! You... willll...be!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/15/2017 1:59:00 AM

And why did God not just destroy Lucifer and get rid of Hell? He was certainly able to do so! Without the negative, there would be only apathy, without the bad, nothing good - no love, kindness, joy! :-)

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 6/15/2017 1:58:00 AM

My favorite line, Kim - it showed how all Jedi were in touch with BOTh sides of The Force, (though all those lessons were in the Bible as well - it is not "new" wisdom, lol), and why all of us sometimes need to draw on our darker emotions for survival ... fear is a critical one.

Darren White

Date: 6/9/2017 4:39:00 AM

We are, it is. We should not. I meditate, and although I am not religious, I am a Tao-adept. Because I am bedridden for longer periods of time, it is easy to start fretting, and question everything, fear oneself. It is much harder, but far more rewarding to step out of oneself and observe without any judgment.

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 6/9/2017 9:12:00 AM

So even though you are not religious if I may share one bible verse. It always helps me so. -God has not given me the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind- So i say this often and ponder. It leads me away from myself. Sending my love, dear Darren <3 Kim Rodrigues