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Quest and Discovery
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Sunday, April 14, 2024    Rated "G" by the Author.
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-- Quest and Discovery --

by John Herlihy

 

We are lost inside the quest,

We are found by discovery.

Freedom far from the nest,

Fly into depths of mystery.

 

On the way to one’s fortune,

A thread-bare fate richly sewn.

On a journey, events inopportune,

Confronted with things unknown.

 

The quest for one’s true identity,

The enigma of one’s true selfhood.

Always seeking one’s true destiny,

Fulfillment found in brotherhood.

 

Yet for all the expanse of the day,

Enlightenment on the narrow way.

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Friday 1 March 2024


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 Reviews of "Quest and Discovery"
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on April 15, 2024
WHO AM I?...A CHILD OF GOD. BEING THE PRODUCT OF AN INFORMAL ADOPTION...THERE USE TO BE A TIME WHEN THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH BUT I THANK GOD TO HAVE LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO...DISCOVER....WHAT REALLY MATTERS, AMEN. THANK YOU FOR SHARING, JOHN. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan
Reviewed on April 14, 2024
Our lives are works in progress with pauses along the way to experience the kind of education that can only be found on our individual journeys. Your pauses and mine might seem identical, yet we each take away different things based on what went before and what we hope may lie ahead. Thus we come to know and hopefully accept our individualities, as well as our failings, and triumphs, and our destinies.

Rebecca

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on April 14, 2024
You've written a piece here whose subtext is a dire warning that quest is good. It's what most are searching and seeking that is disturbing. There is little wonder why isolation is being generated by social media. Ad AI to this phenomenon and we are living in a world that risks finding itself without any quest or search or seeking. Aspirational Slavery I called it recently. Would that more of the global population would risk thinking as you do, suggesting hope and focus, the planet would surely be better equipped to survive... itself. "Enlightenment on the narrow way" indeed.


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