Wisdoms from the Journey - Vol VIII (Jan thru Oct 2014)

"I am off in search of the great perhaps." ~ François Rabelais
"I die hard, but am not afraid to go." ~ George Washington
"The fog is rising ... I must go in." ~ Emily Dickinson
"Why not? ... Yeah." ~ Timothy Leary
"Beautiful." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (replying to her husband about how she felt)
“I love many things; I love all people.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
"Make the world better." ~ Lucy Stone (abolitionist & activist)
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the
wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the
sunset." ~ Crowfoot
P.P.S. No matter what anyone one day says or writes to the contrary, my
own last words (no matter when I one day happen to say them) are hereby officially
noted to be:
"First, discern the devils in your dogma;
Second, soothe the sufferings of the sentient;
Last ... be Kind when least inclined."
I realize that this is a mouthful to get out while taking one's last breath, and
yet these 20 words encompass the three primary reasons I have chosen to Be; the
three main messages I have chosen to share while I am still alive ... So even if I
don't actually get them out of my mouth before I pass onward, know that I was
most certainly thinking them at the time -- and report them as uttered anyway.
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