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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 12:49 AM
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oh glorious
and bathed in the full moon tonite



'This Earth, this world. For a warrior there can be no greater love.
Only if one loves this Earth with unbending passion can one release one's sadness.
A warrior is always joyful because his love is unalterable and his beloved
the Earth, embraces him and bestows upon him unconceivable gifts.

The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives them shelter to their beings.

This lovely being, which is alive to its very last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me,
it cured me of my pains, and finally
when I had fully understood my love for it,
it taught me freedom'

Happy Mother's Day

dp
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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 06:19 AM
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1. Beautiful poem, dweller,
simply beautiful. :hug:

Thank you for sharing it with us.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 09:26 PM
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5. credit where due
the above quotes are gleaned from the last chapter of Carlos Castaneda's Tales of Power. I read them first in the year it was released (1975) and in many re-readings they have always resonated with me. It continues:

'The antidote that kills the poison is here ... (caressing the ground)
because without an unwavering love for the being that gives you shelter,
aloneness is loneliness.

Only the love for this splendorous being can give freedom to a warrior's spirit;
freedom is joy, efficiency and abandon in the face of any odds. That is the last lesson.

It is always left for the very last moment, for the moment of ultimate solitude
when a man faces his death and his aloneness.
Only then does it make sense.'

i'm glad you enjoyed it. I post it every Mother's day.

peace,
dp





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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-12-09 06:18 AM
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7. Ah, Carlos Castaneda.
I've not read enough of the books to have recognized the style.

Thank you for letting me know - I like the additional lines too. The "ultimate solitude" of death and aloneness brings many things to my mind.
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-13-09 08:40 PM
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8. I have read all of his books :) and I have an understanding of them
Edited on Wed May-13-09 08:41 PM by winyanstaz
due to the fact I am an astral traveler and shape shifter myself.
I am more like a "never know when I might go scouting scout, but I will share what I learn when I get back" ;)
I also teach how to see those bubbles of energy/energy fields/auras he talked about and I can show most people the first four layers of the human energy field.
In fact, it was Carlos writings that made me realize I could shift "gravity" on the inner planes and any way I wanted could be "down".
His books are a treasure.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 06:23 AM
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2. Remembering Mother Earth on Mother's Day
What a great idea!
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 06:53 AM
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3. Beautiful, Dweller
Thanks for this! :hi:
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southerncrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 07:35 PM
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4. Nice.
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 10:09 PM
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6. Much love & light to our beloved mother.
Happy Mother's Day to all of the mother's in the group.

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