Ghost

About me:

This is me:

Sometimes I’ll get lost in thought over something trivial.
I don’t communicate as good through my mouth as I do through my fingers.
I have an internal monologue that is always dying to get out.
I am in love with birthing metaphors.
I can find beauty in things most people step over.
There are things about me that I want to change.
There are things about me that I want to remain the same.
I love the broken night.
I can make you laugh when my lips let loose.
My heart always gets in the way, for good or bad.
I always try to remain optimistic, but sometimes I get so low that it could make the optimism look cheap.
I feel with every ounce of my being.
I inhale the soft sound of the world around me and exhale in stuttered screams.
I once cried when I saw two little kids playing in the snow.
I am hard. I am delicate.
I want to break free.
I am learning every day that my life is an evolving, mutating, beast of a painting and I hope the brush never gets put down.

This is me. Take it for what you will.


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“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”

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It's far better to die like a man on your feet then to live forever like a slave on your knees.

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"There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep -- and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light."

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"When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter."

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"Logic comes afterwards. It’s how we retrace our steps. It’s being wise after the event. Before the event you have to be very silly."

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"At times I almost dream...
I too have spent a life the sage's way and traveled once more familiar paths,
Per chance I've perished in arrogant self-reliance an age ago,
And in that act, a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest, so...
Instinct with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely,
but scattered, wrecks enough of it to remain, dim memories, as now.
One sees once more, the goal in sight again..."

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Ekam Sat Vipra Bahuda Vadanthi