Found Words – Nietzsche

“Whoever would be someday the bearer of an important message remains quiet for a long time; whoever wants to provide lightning must for a long time be a cloud.”

//hat tip: TD

Found Words – Seeleib-Kaiser

Quote of the seminar:

“Government policies are like prescription drugs, they have unexpected side effects.” 

//hat tip: EK

Found Words – Ehrmann

Beyond a wholesome discipline, 
be gentle with yourself. 
You are a child of the universe 
no less than the trees and the stars; 
you have a right to be here. 
And whether or not it is clear to you, 
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

 - desiderata

//hat tip: ch

Found Words – Moliere

***guest post***

“I am, I fear, inclined to be unfashionably sincere.”

 - The Misanthrope

//hat tip: JD

Found Words – Snow Patrol

You could be happy and I won’t know
But you weren’t happy the day I watched you go

And all the things that I wished I had not said
Are played in loops ’till it’s madness in my head

Is it too late to remind you how we were
But not our last days of silence, screaming, blur

Most of what I remember makes me sure
I should have stopped you from walking out the door

You could be happy, I hope you are
You made me happier than I’d been by far

Somehow everything I own smells of you
And for the tiniest moment it’s all not true

Do the things that you always wanted to
Without me there to hold you back, don’t think, just do

More than anything I want to see you, girl
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world

 - you could be happy

//hat tip: jl

Found Words – Allen Ginsberg

***guest post***

–thanks Patricia–

Sakyamuni*1 Coming Out From the Mountain

Liang Kai fecit *2
Southern Sung *3

In robes of rag, eyebrows grown long with weeping
and hooknosed woe,
dragging himself out of the cave
barefoot by the shrubs
wearing a fine beard
unhappy hands clasped to his naked breast
humility is beatness
humility is beatness
stands upright there tho’ trembling:
4*Arhat who sought heaven
underneath the mountain of stone
reentering the world a bitter
wreck of a sage the flash come
earth before him his only path.
Sat thinking till he realized
how painful to
be born again
wearing a fine beard
we can see his soul
he knows nothing, like a god
shaken:
meek wretch:
humility
is beatness
before the absolute World.

–Allen Ginsberg

*1. A name for one of the later forms of Buddha
*2. Liang Kai made it, painted it
*3. about 1150 AD it was painted
*4 asiatic name for Sage or Mage or Saint or Holyman

Sakyamuni Comes Out From the Mountain, painted by Liang Kai about 1150 AD, written by Allen Ginsberg much later,”apparently about a man, a Sage, a mage, a Saint, a Holyman, who immured himself under a mountain till he should be wise.”

Found Words – Mr. Holland’s Opus

**Guest Post**

“Mr. Holland had a profound influence on my life and on a lot of lives I know. But I have a feeling that he considers a great part of his own life misspent. Rumor had it he was always working on this symphony of his. And this was going to make him famous, rich, probably both. But Mr. Holland isn’t rich and he isn’t famous, at least not outside of our little town. So it might be easy for him to think himself a failure. But he would be wrong, because I think that he’s achieved a success far beyond riches and fame. Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched, and each of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. We are the music of your life.”

//hat tip: TD

Found Words – Helen Keller

***Guest Post***

“To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”

-The Story of My Life

//hat tip: TD

Found Words – Nickel Creek

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You got to leave me now, you got to go alone 
You got to chase a dream, one that’s all your own 
Before it slips away 
When you’re flyin’ high, take my heart along 
I’ll be the harmony to every lonely song 
That you learn to play 

When you’re soarin’ through the air 
I’ll be your solid ground 
Take every chance you dare 
I’ll still be there 
When you come back down 
When you come back down 

Found Words – Buffalo Springfield

***Guest Post***

“There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong”

-For What It’s Worth

//hat tip: JD