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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

T. S. Eliot

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
T. S. ELIOT

Deep Different Experience Missing
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear Myself Yourself
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Teach us to care and not to care
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Care One Liner Teaching
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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Deep Last Music
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
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Joy Moments Oneself Pain
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Knowledge Yourself
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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Mess Success
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Fantasy Myself Sing Thinking
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy

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