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In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

quote by Huston Smith
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

quote by Margaret Young
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

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I Don't Want To Live Forever

Frank Sinatra died today
I came home and found my mama crying
The TV had so much to say
Somehow I was thinking about dying
I'm seventeen and thinking about dying
I don't want to live forever
Just want to know that I'm alive
Don't want to live forever
Just until the day I die
I see my daddy in his chair
He sits there night and day
The TV still looks good as new
Daddy's old and gray
And it's scaring me to death
I don't want to go that way
I don't want to live forever
Just want to know that I'm alive
Don't want to live forever
Just until the day I die
Just because your heart's still beating
It don't mean that you're alive
Don't want to live forever
Nobody lives forever
Gonna live while I'm alive
You can see the glass half-empty
You can see the glass half-full
But all I see are shattered dreams
Around this neighborhood
My brother's girlfriend's pregnant
And today she's moving in
My friends all play the lottery
And swear one day they'll win
I'm seventeen, I'm thinking about dying
I'm seventeen, no way I'm dying
Don't want to live forever
Just want to know that I'm alive
Don't want to live forever
Just until the day I die
Just because you're breathing
It don't mean that you're alive
Don't want to live forever
Nobody lives forever
I don't want to live forever
Nobody lives forever
Don't want to live forever
I don't want to live forever
Nobody lives forever
I don't want to live forever
Don't want to live forever
I don't want to live forever
Nobody lives forever
I don't want to live forever
Nobody lives forever
I don't want to live forever

song performed by by Bon Jovi
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

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In Our Lives

Written by John Mellencamp
Well I'm a middle-aged teenager
I'm a man of angst and leisure
Doin' the best that I can do
My problems are incorrect
I've always got it around my neck
Hey I'm just like you
Yeah I've done some good and I've done some bad
But the most fun that I ever had
Was singing my songs for you
And if I should go astray
I'd get down on my knees and pray
Say God forgive me for what I do
Oh in our lives
There's no right way for us to live it
You know in our lives
There's a time to cry and a time to forget it
Well I'm a broke down humble man
Baby that's just who I am
And that's from me to you
Well I feel good here
Got about a million more years
To do what it is I gotta do
And if some day you happen to be passin' my way
Say hi, hello, how are you
Well, I'll return the gesture in kind
And hope that things are fine
And you all just do what you gotta do
Oh in our lives
There's no right way for us to live it
Oh in our lives
There's a time to cry and a time to get with it
You know in our lives there's no right way for us to live it.
Well I'm a broke down humble man
That's just who I am
And that's from me to you
Yeah I'm a broke down humble man
Yeah that's just who I am
And that's from me to you
Oh in our lives
You know in our lives
Yeah in our lives there's no right way for us to live it

song performed by by John Mellencamp
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Cosmic Estuary...by Talile Ali

here goes.
ever since i discovered
that all that we were was living an illusion,
i have wanted to know the where and why of it.

thru investigation,
i have discovered a great deal, all of which
seems to confirm the illusion and
the reasons why we need to perpetuate it.

there are a lot of things going on in our
perpetuating this illusion
of the lives that
we have ourselves to commit

we are social animals.
being so, we need to address
the two major drives we all have
to exist

we have want and needs.
in order to want to survive.
we have wants and needs
in order to want to live

These two drives
Created this illusion
of our lives
And how we perceive ourselves within it

we have defined ourselves as being divine
different from other animals.
this is the beginning of our
delusion, being humans.

we needed to define ourselves as a distinctive being
in order to want to go far
are we the only animal who have illusions
about who and what they are?

all living things need to believe in
who and what they are as art
if thing's do not have a motive to exist,
they ceases to be real in their heart's.

THAT IS WHY FAITH IS SO IMPORTANT.

in our situation,
we have created this fantical mythos
so grand that it allowed us
to live long in such ghost's.

In the instance of the other species,
their mythos is exactly what it needs to be
in order for them to perform
the functions we so desperately need

thats right,
we need all things
to want to survive
in order for us to want to be alive.

that is the power of faith
in all living things.
from the tiniest atom to the grandest of universes,
there is this purpose to be well.

to be well.
it is in our desire
to be well
that all things may flow.

from plants to human
to atoms to microbes,
being well is the function
we all know.

but since all things have
something known as free choice,
we have consequences that are so cold and true
disaster is often the result of listening to those voices

we chose to put caustic materials
in or bodies for consumption at times
the result is we end up diseased up
from trying to metabolize things we can't even describe

If this is true for us known beings and all that we know
is it also true for the cosmos which also ebbs and flows?

poem by Talile Ali
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Death and survival, and theories....

Those who struggle so hard
in order to live for a number of years more
are admirable

They fight their wars
and Just don't surrender that easily,

Those who want to end their lives
Finding it absurd
Those who hit their heads hard against the wall
and Bleed and die
Upon their own will
I say,
They too are admirable

They have guts.

Death is a state, but the door towards it
is painful. Those who embrace pain, contrary to norms,
must deserve our honor.
Theirs is that dignity to end their lives
at will.

Life is precious they say. It is a gift.

But life has no meaning sometimes.
One simply gets short of more reasons in order to continue the journey of sorrow and grief
and occasional joys of living.

One kicks hard against the storms.
The other stretches his hands to touch the sky.
Others let them be.

Those who are afraid, and non committal,
simply leave their lives in the hands of God.

They too have their own reasons,
They rest their destinies to Fate

or Faith,
And they too, must be admirable
or honorable.

I am this spectator still trying to fathom
the truth about this right or wrong.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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2nd Thought

And all the order in our lives
Left some time ago
Along the way
We are the ones who never cry
Like we dont care
Today
Me at home and you out there
And on your way
Its gone so far and now it seems
Its only me
Who cares
I know it helps the times you asked
Though never gained
A little hope to set you free
Less restrained
And though the order in our lives
Left some time ago
We are the ones who never cry
Or so were told
Its gone so far and now it seems
Its only me
Me at home and you out there
Along the way
Me at home and you out there
Along the way
Me at home and you out there
Along the way

song performed by by Omd
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

quote by William Law
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Robert the Bruce (To Douglas in Dying)

'MY life is done, yet all remains,
The breath has gone, the image not,
The furious shapes once forged in heat
Live on though now no longer hot.
'Steadily the shining swords
In order rise, in order fall,
In order on the beaten field
The faithful trumpets call.
'The women weeping for the dead
Are not sad now but dutiful,
The dead men stiffening in their place
Proclaim the ancient rule.
'Great Wallace's body hewn in four,
So altered, stays as it must be.
0 Douglas do not leave me now,
For past your head I see
'My dagger sheathed in Comyn's heart
And nothing there to praise or blame,
Nothing but order which must be
Itself and still the same.
'But that Christ hung upon the Cross,
Comyn would rot until time's end
And bury my sin in boundless dust,
For there is no amend.
'In order; yet in order run
All things by unreturning ways,
If Christ live not, nothing is there
For sorrow or for praise.'
So the king spoke to Douglas once
A little while before his death,
Having outfaced three English kings
And kept a people's faith.

poem by Edwin Muir
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One Thing We Should know About Terrorism

There's one thing we should know about terrorism it will not be beaten by force
But we can lessen the threat of it by treating it at it's source
Like in our attitude to those different to us since the sort of a Human World we live in we help to create
Since racism and cultural divisions only does give rise to hate
For to rid the World of terrorism there is not any plan
For if people wish to harm you they most certainly can
Why do some people hate us so much that they want to do us ill
That they even sacrifice their own lives in order us to kill?
This is the question we must ask ourselves and the answer well may be
That those we choose to Govern us create for us an enemy
And in order for to cling to power fear and paranoia of those different they do spread
And their awful war on terror have left a million people dead
But by treating the source of terrorism we may well be on our way
To a more peaceful World to live in on a not too distant day.

poem by Francis Duggan
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One Cannot Live One's Childrens' Lives For Them

ONE CANNOT LIVE ONE’S CHILDRENS’ LIVES FOR THEM

One cannot live one’s childrens’ lives for them-
Their pains are their pains-
Their disappointments their disappointments-
One cannot take them away
From every real hurt,
And make them live always
In Blessing Happiness Love.

One cannot live one’s childrens’ lives for them
Even their pain is their own
Though sometimes it hurts us so much
We do not feel the difference.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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The House Where Love Lives

A squeaky gate a welcome lock a big shaggy dog that lives out back
And some might even call it a shack but this is the house where love lives
The paint is peelin' off of the cells the mailbox is full of bills
And it's no mansion on the hill but this is the house where love lives
There's a little boy who looks just you with freckles on his nose and eyes of blue
A little girl almost two and everybody says she looks just like you
So thank you dear for loving me though I know rich we'll never be
But that doesn't matter to you and me cause we live in the house where love lives
[ steel ]
So thank you dear for loving me though I know rich we'll never be
But that doesn't matter to you and me cause we live in the house where love lives
We live in the house where love lives

song performed by by Dolly Parton
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Death

I come to die, to let you live, by dying you live, death
comes in different color and paint in different design;
touch every art that made you what to live and log in
your soul desire in order, to live in the eternity you win

poem by Antonio Liao
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Sometimes, Why?

Sometimes you've got to live in order to learn how life is.
Why? because if you don't you'll always be left behind.
Sometimes you have to cry and hurt.
Why? In order to live your life.
Sometimes you think everyday is going to be blue.
But sometimes your going to have a dark moon.
Sometimes you wish you can say all you have inside.
Why? because if you dont it's like having a rope tied inside your throat that won't untied.
Sometimes, well always you wish that you can say how and what i feel.
Why? because they'll know how you feel and if your happy or not
But until that day comes i guess i will stay that way, for no matter what you say I'm the way i am
Sometimes, why

poem by Stephanie Leon
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We should live two lives in order to understand the world: one as a man and the other as a woman.

Menotti Lerro in The Poetry of Menotti Lerro (2011)
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Joy

All lives live for joy,
One works for joy,
One reads and writes for joy,
We help each other for joy,
Every life loves the other lives for joy,
Amassed wealth is sacrificed for joy,
In one's life one cannot live sans joy.
Oh! Lord Nataraja, you dance with joy!
You are ever and ever in supreme joy!
You are ensconced in my mind, I'm in joy!
Without joy who can live in this world?

poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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Idle Lives Live to Wander

Idle lives live to wander,
Under discouraged eyes...
Reset to ponder,
Why they choose fits to drift...
In a constant need.
Of wanting to please.

Idle lives live to wander,
Under discouraged eyes...
Why,
There are others who believe...
They live just to be on bended knees.
Begging freely from a 'Deity'.
In a pleading to make easier,
A way of life they accept to breathe.

Idle lives live to wander,
Under discouraged eyes...
Reset to ponder,
Why they choose fits to drift...
In a constant need.
Of wanting to please.

Idle lives live to wander,
In a constant need.
Of wanting to please.

Idle lives live to wander,
In a constant need.
Of wanting to please.

Idle lives live to wander,
In a constant need.
Of wanting to please.

In a constant need.
Of wanting to please.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Happiness We Can Not Hide

You and I,
Should decide to live our lives,
Together.

Why should we deny,
A happiness we can not hide.
For the sake of what others think.

You and I,
Should decide to live our lives,
Together.

Why should we deny,
Those feelings we know...
Reside inside.

You and I,
Should decide to live our lives,
Together.

Why should our happiness,
Be someone else's business?

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A Candle And A Man.

Someone lights a candle
And I see the things around.
A candle must burn like this
Nay, every candle must burn like this.
I begin to tell every one.

A candle dies as it lives for us
And we appear to live while we travel towards the end.
A candle lives and lives while it appears to be dying..
A lot we have to learn.
I begin to learn none.

It`s a candle which lives and lives throws greater questions
And I begin to be introceptive
-A mental exercise on a confined mind.
When shall I begin to live like a candle?
When shall I give out a flame that lives?

The questions begin to boomerang on me
As I sit in the candle light and see everything.
I see everything?
I miss to see a candle too.
The ghost of a candle haunts me.

poem by M.d Dinesh Nair
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