life stages are like chapters in a book; sometimes turning the page is the bravest thing you can do. embrace the simplicity in every sentence, for it's in the easy moments that your story truly shines.
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The bigger the stage, the grander the scheme.
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"Sorry, we are all out of hostages. They fell or something."
~Hamas?
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I am not a scumbag why did you label me harami?and gave me chutiya Gando tag?
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You have probably made yourself too present for others if you observe that they begin to disregard and take advantage of you. Be less present and more absent.
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Sometimes you reach a stage in life
where you realize, it's not about you.
I saw a man fighting for something greater than him and everyone was born free.
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Life is like a prolonged hostage situation where love is the driving emotion. Compassion is the key to dealing with the other hostages. Your goal is to realize why you are a hostage for yourself. Forgiveness begins the release processing.
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"Love has a huge price tag."
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Use The Mirror To Your Advantage
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Visha Poison acts as an antagonist at glycine receptors and paralyzes inhibitory neurons.
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How long will you live by eating someone else’s leftovers?
Find your own way, don’t live on regurgitated words!
—Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: life, words, Hindi)
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When you were born, you wept while the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world weeps while you rejoice.
—Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: birth, death, world, laughter, rejoice, weep, weeping, cry, crying)
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Keep the slanderer near you, build him a hut near your house.
For, when you lack soap and water, he will scour you clean.
—Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: home, water, Hindi)
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Without looking into our hearts,
how can we find Paradise?
—Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: heart, hearts, paradise, sight, seeing, senses, vision)
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Certainly, saints, the world’s insane:
If I tell the truth they attack me,
if I lie they believe me.
—Kabir Das, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch (keywords/tags: truth, trust, lies, faith, belief, world)
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A poet births words,
brings them into the world like a midwife,
then wet-nurses them from infancy to adolescence.
— Michael R. Burch (keyword/tags: poet, poets, words, birth)
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Ko Un was speechless at Auschwitz. Someday, when it’s too late, will we be speechless at Gaza? —Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: Holocaust, Auschwitz, Gaza, death, murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, infanticide, matricide)
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Joe Montana was Joe Cool, but he was also Joe Clutch. — Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: football, sports, Joe Montana, cool, clutch)
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Water reforms, although we slice it with our swords;
Sorrow returns, although we drown it with our wine.
('A Toast to Uncle Yun' by Li Bai, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch)
Keywords/Tags: water, wine, sorrow, swords, Li Bai, Uncle Yun
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The spring breeze knows partings are bitter;
The willow twig knows it will never be green again.
('Lines from Laolao Ting Pavilion' by Li Bai, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch)
Keywords/Tags: spring, green, part, parting, partings, tree, twig
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Cassidy Hutchinson is a modern Erin Brockovich except that in her case the well has been poisoned for the whole country. — Michael R. Burch
(Keywords/Tags: America, USA, patriotic, truth, justice, White House, Trump)
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Cassidy Hutchinson is not only credible, but her courage and poise under fire have been incredible. — Michael R. Burch
(Keywords/Tags: courage, truth, patriotic, credible, incredible, credibility, Trump)
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I have suffused myself in poetry
as a lizard basks, soaking up sun,
scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light
he understands—when it comes, it comes…
(Michael R. Burch, "Sun Poem," keywords/tags: sun, sunshine, summer, poetry)
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The reign
in a chauvinist’s brain
falls mainly as mansplain.
("Apologies to España" by Michael R. Burch, Keywords/Tags: men, women, Spain, Spanish)
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There is nothing at all supreme, nor anything remotely just, about Clarence Thomas.—Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: justice, injustice, supreme court, corruption, America, judgement)
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Justice may be blind, but does she have to be deaf too?—Michael R. Burch (Keywords/Tags: silence, justice, injustice, integrity, truth)
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“Epigram”
means cram,
then scram!
("Brief Fling" by Michael R. Burch, Keywords/Tags: write, writing, words, word play)
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Wayne Gretzky was pure skill poured into skates.—Michael R. Burch
Keywords/Tags: sports, hockey, NHL, skill, talent, genius, miracle
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Never take advantage of a good pure heart for that heart sometimes gets weary and has emotions soon one will find out.
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The pressure of being time bound is the reason most of us make the wrong decisions and are unhappy. Take time out of the equation of your life and the world is a big stage for experimentation.
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