One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
quote by Meister Eckhart
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Man still is just man
When man mastered
the horse and chariot,
and later build cars
to drive over the earth
it made him no god
over it
and still he lacked
the knowledge
of how to make
out of nothing and a void
sand, pebbles and rock.
When man felled a tree
and build a boat
to float on the river
and the sea
and later constructed ships
and submarines
and mastered the art of sailing
he still was just man
and storms, huge waves
and water could still kill him.
When man mastered the art
of flying by machines
and could travel in the sky,
planes could still dropp and crash
and man was still bound
by the laws of nature.
When man mastered fire, steam, fuel,
electricity and nuclear power
and could harness it
at his choice
and reached into space,
he still stayed human
and a spec in the universe.
poem by Gert Strydom
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
quote by Nicolas de Chamfort
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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered.
quote by David Ashley Brewer
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Dervishes and Mastery
Oh.
Time has slapped me in the face
The air was thick and settled
A new tick
A slower second
You have mastered time
You have mastered
Me
My.
You've really swept me off my feet.
Haven't let me down to breathe
For weeks.
I'm suffocating
Bury me deeper
Steal my atmosphere
Let me die this way
Heart speeding in a hundred different directions
Goodness.
I'm a flat out fool
For you.
I'm a fish out of water
I've grown wings
You tell me I'm your goddess
In frenzied dervishes you paint me
You whisper: muse
You brush my face with a smile
Is the creator of something divine
A god himself?
poem by Aria Siren
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One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.
quote by Ron Howard
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There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
quote by Philip Knight
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Chords Are Broken
Chords are broken in the mastered circles,
Open him up with knife,
Crickets can leap and chirp,
Butter has been brought,
On an island I confess,
Feeding the life, feeding the life;
We might considerably collect anybody
To feed on life who lives on and on.
The chord has snapped of a circular man
Or a stick-man, although I crept onto him
From the world and the planets.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Suffering
Singing and mocking is all they do,
Sitting and walking carries on.
See him looking and watching,
Levels of pain are mastered,
As flies are swatted, possessions built,
Ask the oracle of life what he thinks
About the presence of suffering?
He only says the knowledge of theft and crime,
He can never command you in the ways of life
For these commands are enjoyed by angels.
poem by Naveed Akram
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
Carl Sagan in Cosmos
Submitted by Catalin Popescu
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Catch The Man
Catch the man who escapes for something,
His entrance to the jaws of life conveys nothing;
Might and power betrays the worker in outer life,
Mastered knowledge is the reality.
Caught in the act, a dog and man are the same,
The thief surpasses a butcher, but does the thief
Also butcher the one who is in his way,
The one in the way of success and prosperous conversation?
poem by Naveed Akram
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
quote by W.E.B. Du Bois
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Holy River
Washed in the Holy River, purified by faith,
Darkness calls but is seen dead like a wraith,
Your spirit, enlivened by the Holy Dove,
Desert wastelands beckon, calling to your love,
Fountains of JOY bubbling beneath the surface,
You remain FREE from the devils furnace,
Your life a prayer mastered,
Your fathers call is answered!
In your eyes I see my souls reflection,
Breathe the spirit of souls redemption.
Your heart and mind are at one,
It seems your work is never done.
Forgiveness feeds your soul,
Your Love and peace make us whole,
Spirit cleansed to perfection,
We dream of your selection,
Fountains of JOY bubbling beneath the surface,
You remain FREE from the devils furnace,
Your life a prayer mastered,
Your fathers call is answered!
When the waters lie still at night,
Under a sliver of moon we see your light,
Giving us hope to rise up, never give in,
We defend our right to end all sin.
April 2012
poem by David Andre' Klopper
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Life, It isn’t
true life is not in the body
for it is the one that you can touch
it is a wrinkle
multiplying upon itself
true life is in the breath that you take in
inside your lungs
you fill the fullness in your heart
it is the soul that flies away
with a song
a bird that has finally mastered the
use of its own wings
there are no boundaries for its proper place
all space
no weight
not matter anymore
it is the sound that finally leaves the
cage of the mouth
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Harmless Heart
You said you were afraid to trust
So sorry for yourself it must be hard
Living inside your head
Well, Im no angel in disguise
Ive had my share of alibis
But I was true to you, I meant every word I said
But whats the use, you believe whatever you want to
Chorus:
You can run, you can hide,
Love will still come to find you
You can turn it away
Keep romancin your pain
Your the best at self defense
I say youve mastered the art
But baby, mine was a harmless heart
In your mind Im like the rest
Set me up to fail the test
And prove that you were right
Everyone lets you down
The ghost of all that might have been
Is tapping on your shoulder
But you just keep right on movin,
You never turn around
If you ever do, I hope you see that I really love you
Repeat chorus
Youre the best at self defense
I say youve mastered the art,
But baby, mine was a harmless heart
Yeah mine was a harmless heart
song performed by by Trisha Yearwood
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Respect And Holler
Respect as far as little talks, looking,
Swaying and seeing, to blindly walk.
Gosh, the manners mastered are exact,
Often we sell products of beauty.
Gaggling geese stutter and remedy others,
With their squawk, hollering and howling.
Let living be red, blue are the skies,
And blood is the same as life gone.
Love is the blood of life, in this respect,
Often a liver worked by living like us.
poem by Naveed Akram
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One
One thousand voices
But not one heard
One thousand thoughts
But not one word
One thousand troubles
But no one will know it
Unless I decide to
Finally show it
One thousand cuts
Run down my arm
A tribute to my
Life of self-harm
One thousand scars
That will not heal
One thousand people
Who will not feel
One thousand but no more
I finally decide
There will be one less person
And one more suicide
poem by Anonymous Ghurl
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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