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Shamanic "Thought for the Day" Archive
Dec 23, 2008: The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.
Mary Oliver
Dec 24, 2008: If you cannot feed a hundred people
If you cannot feed a hundred people, feed one.
Mother Theresa
Previous Thoughts for the Day:
09
Dec - 22 Dec, 2008
11
Nov - 08 Dec, 2008
27
Oct - 10 Nov, 2008
09
Oct - 23 Oct, 2008
23
Sept - 08 Oct, 2008
03
- 22 Sept, 2008
12
Aug - 01 Sept, 2008
28
July - 11 Aug, 2008
26
June - 24 July, 2008
03
June - 25 June, 2008
13
May - 02 June, 2008
30
Apr - 12 May, 2008
15
- 29 April, 2008
01
- 14 April, 2008
16
- 31 March, 2008
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