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Ride out your storms with joy. Sacred journey. These riches never depend only on what you have been given, but just as much upon what you make of what you have been given. I dance the moment and make it live.

Listen. Hear it. In that first death I heard the Vital. And I heard It true in Mahler—or in Mozart. Far, far more than the tools of the old and little enlightenment is the Vital of a New and Great Enlightenment of that most human that rides on Beauty and Joy. On Love and Life. All Beloved. Can you hear it?  Man is not human because he makes tools. He is human because he sings. With words he sings each one like a bard. 

William Boast                                                 

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Ezra Pound born 1885 in Hailey, Idaho, died 1972:  poet and critic best known for his Cantos and Cathay, and for his assistance in advancing the work of his fellow poets; W.B. Yeats, R. Frost, W.C. Williams, T.S. Eliot and others.
Quotes:  “A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is sheep-herding.”
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

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Does the quest kindle any greatness in you? If not, cast it aside. Does nothing at all kindle greatness in you? If not, cast that you aside. Create a vibrant life around you or go where there's life. 

Ben Leichtling

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James Boswell (9th Laird of Auchinlock) born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1740, died 1795: attorney, diarist and author known best for his Life of Samuel Johnson and his London Journal.
Quotes:  “He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he smarts from it.” 
“I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.” “I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.” 

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...I must have done something right when one night in my dreams.... 

I was again traveling on a road that was running parallel to a river on my right. This time, however, there were many cars traveling in both directions ... I realized that I was on the same road I had traveled a few nights earlier. On this night though, instead of the road dropping off into nothingness, I could see the road ahead of me suddenly taking a 90 degree turn straight up. "Oh God, not this road again, " I thought ... If I were going to have any chance of making it up I knew I had to push my car beyond the extremes. Without hesitation, I steered my way around the pile of people and vehicles at the bottom of the hill and began my journey upward. At first, I was rather amazed how the car made it past a quarter of the way up. Here I was weaving around those vehicles that ... would soon be falling back to the road below ... I knew I had to stay focused on what was ahead As my car made it past the halfway mark and past the point where no other vehicle had gone, I sensed I was going to make it. But the moment I noticed where I was in relation to others, the car began to lose it momentum... 

My upward movement had come to a halt and I was beginning to feel the car move slightly backwards. I was within an arm's reach of the top. To fall from here would be my death and the cause of other deaths below. I had no choice but immediately to reach out my car window and grab the pavement above with my left hand. And as I began to hold the roof of the car with my legs, I reached up with my right hand and tried pulling myself and my car to the top. I'm not sure which was more painful-the heat of the asphalt on the side of my body as I dangled there, scraping the skin off my elbows as I tried to swing the car and my legs up to the ledge or the feeling of my fingernails being torn from their roots, my fingertips being burned to the bone. Cars were whizzing by my head and hands as I was desperately trying to pull the car up over the edge. With pain now surging through my whole body, I roared with a power and rage that echoed through the valley and pulled myself and the car over the edge and on to the top of the road. 

It was a quest, a trial, a journey, a personal hero path that I had just traveled. The next time God provides me with an opportunity in real time, a time that I know may well bring pain, death and suffering, I look forward to the ride down and the chance of yelling at the top of my lungs, "WWWHHHHEEEEEEEEE!"                                                                                                                                            

Earl Behnke

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Mawlid al Nabi: Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad

Sts. Simon and Jude: Apostles 

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I have translated, transmuted, transformed all of the nine concepts (Vital, Synchronous, Vatic, Beautiful, Joyous, Alive, An open system, Generative, Creative) by the alchemy in me (every dance, every color, without category)—synchronous, creative, spontaneous—at that moment—till I saw the beauty, felt the joy, generating passion out of that moment and so created the new dance, the new experience where that passion generated the new there was on that street corner, in that woods, by that stream, on that passing day. The Sacred journey...alive. The journey for us can be "generative and in continuous joy." Create a new dance. If you have a plan, a goal, a strategy for your life, you will miss all the joy, all the beauty, all the wisdom, all the adventures of the mind and heart and body and soul.                       

William Boast

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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam born in 1477, died 1536: Dutch Renaissance Humanist, Catholic priest, classical scholar, writer and correspondent with other humanists of the time.
Quotes: “Give light and the dark will disappear of itself.”
“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” 

Sylvia Plath born in Boston, 1932, committed suicide 1963: poet known for her autobiographical The Bell Jar, and poems The Colossus and Ariel
Quotes: “I took a deep breath and listened to the bray of my heart I am, I am, I am.”
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

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Remain for a year, a cycle of time, O Kausalya,
And then from your great love of Brahman
will come your great quest for life everlasting.
Remain a year, a cycle of time, 
and when the time comes
We will speak of the Breath of Life 
as it lives in the eye and the ear,
the nose and the mouth. 
And how Breath sustains and enthuses: 
en-joys the fiery rose of the heart
with its seven hundred million petals of life. 
That where there is joy there is life
and where there is life there is the breath. 
And then you will know that spirit infuses what is imagined,
that he who breathes deeply knows the rising of life.
En-joy and one enjoys life eternal. 
Know that what is deserved is what is desired
and you will know life everlasting
with no lack of offspring.
They will be as the stars
for in fivefold division lies the world's chance to be.                         

Teri Martin