<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484777" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Philosophy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is not how tall the buildings have grown<br>the presence of three elevators<br>that is not what progress is all about</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you are telling me about how ateneo <br>has become an ivory tower rising above<br>the silence of Mt. Apo</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so unlike our times<br>when rooms are crowded when noise<br>grow like grasses on the wild fields<br>uninhabited</div><div style="margin:10px 0">let me ask you what happened to the playgrounds<br>of the children<br>and the chapel where Fr. Dot says mass all day<br>is the pine tree still there<br>and the pond beside<br>where the gold fish are swimming? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">let me sense the essence of our lives<br>not getting much not accumulating power<br>not really going back to dusty chairs<br>but just being here<br>without acquiring<br>and yet still feeling so whole and complete</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in that peace and quiet inside our hearts<br>under that tree that they have cut<br>twenty years ago</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=484777" data-title="A Philosophy de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="it is not how tall the buildings have grown the presence of three elevators that is not what progress is all about you are telling me about how ateneo has become an ivory tower rising above the silence of Mt. Apo so unlike our times when rooms ..."></div> </div> </div>

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