deep with toes

The tea has been drunk and the yoga is made and now is the time to breathe deep with toes splayed. The thoughts that are swirling up there in the brain will just keep on coming again and again and will only stop if the life-thread is broke or the swirling ego is brought under yoke. Acknowledge them kindly don't ask them to cease for they are to humans what pigs are to grease but if they're not given the power they crave then they will retreat back to their ego's cave. With stillness and silence all battles are won while sitting unmoving through night day moon sun while quieting angriness giving up greed relinquishing sadness want lust worry need. This process takes practice; indeed it's just that – it's small daily steps all conspiring to get to Nowhere with Nothing but with all chores met; now is there a way life much better can get?

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feathers or mane

He lives by one principle – one iron rule – which is of course quite simply: Maximum Cool. He's let go of worry and shut every gate and he's not concerned that he's early or late but just does him wholly and fuck all the rest with a bright badge of pride stuck firm to his chest. Not word or deed ruffles his feathers or mane for he just retreats into himself again and wallows in Nothingness all the day long with a pure vitality vibrant and strong. So please do not fight him for he'll always win he takes jibe and insult straight onto the chin and shies not from using his most favorite tool which is of course nothing but Maximum Cool.

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foe angrily bark

With discipline, practice, and some devotion a life of Happiness can be surely won. One need not much money or fine fancy clothes or wireless access or paint on your toes – just a place to rest the head when night arrives as well as fresh food and clean water supplies. Now gather these things in a pile at your feet and learn how to contain and hold back and mete the fury that's brewing out into the dark and do not at a friend or foe angrily bark.

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at early waking

Here is hope and gone is sorrow but they might return tomorrow lingering at crack of dawn and haunting him with weakened spawn. With the yoga and the 'tation he can ponder situations and prepare his mind to take all slings and arrows life might make. So is now and such is folly here upon this sun-baked trolley taking us from spots unknown forever drifting all alone. Oh the well and oh to wander through the stars twixt here and yonder that do make up all we see that still reside in you and me. So rejoice at early waking though the knees be soft and quaking though the hair be white and slow for there is nothing you don't know.

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not neither be

If all permutations of a single god designed to help humans as we drag and plod were given a name and that name were well-known then how on this green earth could True Faith be shown? By speaking such things as can never be spoken we worship the smallest of cheap shiny tokens of a vast grand majesty whose name is Naught whose essence can neither be known nor forgot. Now have done with learning set judgment aside and rejoice as need want and loneliness die for right where you're standing is where you belong so long as your heart-line is ringing with song.

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soft healing light

To worry about things that one can't control is to allow fear to commandeer the soul. Such worries are prayers for evil to come and theirs is a weighty and terrible sum for once they've been thought they do not go away and darken the brightest most cheerful of days. When thinking such bad thoughts one tends to look down and to the left, but try to flip things around and look up and to the right, see what you find – for me this clears out and enlivens the mind. So next time when sadness and similar moods do make one's thoughts turn dark and one's actions rude then try looking upward and then to the right to quickly discover a soft healing light that gently and kindly can guide one back to the still tender silence that makes one anew.

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flesh and tighten

He stands at a crossroads he cannot defend for they who use violence meet a foul end. His poor dedication to that which is True must now be made vibrant and lively anew. It's bye-bye to drinking and stumbling around to making decisions neither wise nor sound to hurting his essence with lies and deceit to not really caring what foodstuffs he'll eat. The Way is quite level and easy to walk – it's doing away with all manners of talk and shedding all worry and thoughts from the past and building foundations on concepts that last. Let him now return to deep humility and let loving kindness the day of light see and let him not waste his great treasure on that which again eludes him in two seconds flat. With foresight and patience he can reach this goal before his bad habits take a lasting toll and he finds himself without much left to give and his mind resembles a poorly-built sieve. So set aside things that but concern the flesh and tighten the spirit's resilient mesh and repeat the patterns that work without fault with words in the mouth that the Mother exalt.

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