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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. - Henry Miller

This is an interesting view I've recently come across, on "what is ordinarily known as love". Have you peeled off your 99% of impurities to touch and hold in your hands the 1% of love? I have not. That process of purification seems to take forever.......

"Love is the door to the divine. It is the only way to relate oneself to the ultimate. But before you can know what love is, you have to go through many purifications. Because what is ordinarily known as love is not only love, many other things are mixed in it. It is very much polluted; it is not pure. Maybe one percent of it is love, but ninety-nine percent is something else. And that ninety-nine percent is dominating, over-powering, overwhelming. The one percent is crushed, destroyed by that ninety-nine percent. One has to drop that ninety-nine percent. There is so much jealousy in your love, and jealousy is poison. There is so much possessiveness in your love, and possessiveness is destructive. Love is a very delicate flower. And to be possessive means throwing a rock on the flower." - Osho

is to be happy. There is no alternative to being happy.

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently.
Be the chess player, not the chess piece." - Ralph Charell

"Acceptance is a magic key. Accept yourself as you are!
And in that acceptance, intelligence arises. Why does
intelligence arise? Because whenever you accept,
you are no more divided."

Osho, 1931-1990
Indian Spiritual Teacher

..ask for the strength to face life's challenges.

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
But to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
But for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,
But to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,
But hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant me that I may not be a coward,
feeling your mercy in my success alone,
But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure."

Rabindranath Tagore

Free Will Astroglogy says.. very encouragingly for fellow Capricorns:

"A British psychologist believes January 24 is the "most depressing day of the year", at least in the
northern hemisphere. Cliff Arnall, whose specialty is seasonal disorders, says this day is typically a
low point, when glum feelings generated by overcast weather, debt from the holidays and broken New
Year's resolutions reach a crescendo. While this might hold true for the other signs of the zodiac,
Capricorn, it doesnt apply to you. The astrological omens reveal you're at the peak of your cycle,
when you can triumph over challenges and accomplish breakthroughs that might normally be
impossible. I suggest you proceed as if long-standing limitations have become irrelevant."

To have what you have not, you have to do what you do not.

A Frenchwoman who eluded justice for 25 years after carrying out a bank robbery in her youth has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence. Helene Castel was 21 when she and six accomplices, all comfortable middle-class families, held up a bank in Paris. One robber was shot dead and the bank manager was seriously wounded when the raid went wrong, but Castel escaped and fled to Mexico. She assumed a false identity, had a child and made a career as a physiotherapist. She was arrested by Mexican police in 2004, just days before her crime would have fallen outside France's 20-year statute of limitations. Her arrest, she said, was like a "cold shower in a heatwave". She was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia, but last week a Parisian court accepted that she was a changed woman and imposed a suspended sentence. - quoted from The Week Issue 545

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Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we begun,
yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.

So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your sould out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart and you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.

And love is blind and that i knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

Goodbye my lover,
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one,
you have been the one for me.

-James Blunt

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein