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The adventure is always & everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unkown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence & courage the danger fades

be nice with it

the realization that we have lost something is not necessarily nostalgic

what absence is made of

here, not here

what is heavy is different for all of us

something from a dream

to realize that those painted forms are themselves the material of new vision

Under the comb the tangle and the straight path are the same.

people got used to it

panderers & seducers

two nickels short of a dime

what precisely is it that we value in value?

an eggshell/covered in patches and scars

calmness that confronts suffering

there is no virtue in conforming meekly to the dominant opinion of the moment

not only had they forgotten, they had forgotten what they had forgotten

twisted and coated in this beastly beauty

hexagram twenty-three: when one goes too far in adornment, sucess exhausts itself; splitting apart means ruin & decay

“You deep in it”