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True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.


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If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.



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A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.



Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.



There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.



Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.



Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.



But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.



There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.





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