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The higher you climb the closer you get

to the impossibility of perfection.

The hope of perfection

still leaves you searching.

Getting lost in this world

is like being caught inside an open door.

There’s no freedom in this place

without the constraints of time and space.

It may take years of traveling within yourself

before you arrive home at your true self.

How can you steer clear

of an internal drive?

Give way to the wheel

when it takes a turn for the better.

There’s no telling which way the wheel’s spinning

when it comes round to your turn.

Leave it to the rider

to put pressure on the wheel.

Struggling to get back on track

does not make you equal to the task.

Don’t be last to join the race,

but only the first to escape.

The illusion of victory is concealed

by an underlying defeat.

Surrender now to failure

for the hope that comes after.

Success and failure are inverted

to fit into the world.

In his world success and failure

is how a man is measured.

Don’t keep your pearl

hidden too long from the world.

A self-enclosed sanctuary

is certainly never safe.

Secrecy must protect its privacy.

The worse disconnection

is to lose your sole foundation.

Love with no spiritual bond

has no foundation to build from.

Some only worship the search for God,

instead of the source of their true desire.

Though we ask many questions of God,

He asks only one of us.

Ancient wisdom can never surrender

to the curse of the future.

Fortify what’s left

of the established truth.

You can’t hold the hand that’s closed,

or ever own the open road.

Loss of control may only

strengthen your hold.

There’s something to gain

from the pain of separation.

The ties that bind

wind up strangling the child.

A family is formed when

fragmented pieces coexist as one.

Romance has a way of bringing

fantasy down to reality.

Family life can be home

to a lot of heartache.

The hardest part of staying

is perfecting the art of waiting.

A small, silent decision

can have drastic repercussions.