<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460017" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Do dolphins leap into dolphin heaven?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be a dolphin. Feel yourself<br>at home in the beloved water<br>in which you were fathered, mothered, <br>fed, grow up, and swim with all your friends…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then one day, you see them disappear from view –<br>a powerful twist of tail… their body’s gone…<br>gone where? … you find that air, which<br>your nostrils have already breathed, is more…<br>a lighter, unsupported world<br>in which all dolphins leap<br>to celebrate their joy<br>in being – just as they are…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and, perhaps, fall back into<br>familiar water, with now greater joy...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who knows, what dolphins think –<br>or how they think, their instincts water-pure? <br>and what is air to them…<br>and whether air is where<br>they are on equal terms with those strange creatures, <br>human beings – yet with whom<br>they have a wonderful affinity; <br>even in protecting them<br>when danger threatens men<br>in dolphins’ safe, free element..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The early Christians, seeing dolphins play<br>around the shores of Greece and Italy<br>and Palestine and Egypt, saw a parallel: <br>in that men, when lost to human thought<br>beyond all thought, leap into an element<br>of joy and freedom and a world above<br>as air to dolphin’s water; their spirits leapt, <br>bringing back to earth a memory<br>never then forgotten, of what lay in store…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and scratched upon dark, taper-flickering walls<br>of catacombs and prisons, a dolphin leaping; <br>‘ My body’s here; my spirit’s leaping there<br>where joy and freedom never disappear…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460017" data-title="Do dolphins leap into dolphin heaven? de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Be a dolphin. Feel yourself at home in the beloved water in which you were fathered, mothered, fed, grow up, and swim with all your friends… and then one day, you see them disappear from view – a powerful twist of tail… their body’s gone..."></div> </div> </div>

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