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You’ll be amazed at what you attract after you start believing in what you deserve. *
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Don't be too preoccupied with impressing, with being relevant, or with sounding profound. As each flower of the field, and all other living things in nature, have their own color, shape, and fragrance, so does the heart of a poet. When you write from your source, with all your heart and mind and soul, you will touch those that you are meant to touch.
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Fools have little interest in understanding. They only want to air their own opinions. Answer a fool according to his folly, and he will be wise in his own eyes. Perhaps it’s why a foolish man’s blabbering mouth fills with wind.
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A sententious individual abounds in pompous or aphoristic moralizing. These types are often antagonistic to what is unlike them, and often they find a kind of self-empowerment in putting down what others hold philosophically, intellectually, or believe spiritually.
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A wise man’s silence can often be misinterpreted, but never misquoted. *
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There is juxtapose in everything human. What one embraces, another detests. What one fails to understand, another clearly sees. Ask the one next to you if they see and feel what you do. Many will say no.
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Speak and write with wholeness. Say only what you mean. Be precise and accurate. Avoid using your words to talk trash, or to demean or gossip about another. Use the power of your words to inform, enlighten, entertain, or challenge.
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In ways, creative types are like bodies of water. To remain healthy and vibrant there must be an inlet to encourage circulation and cleansing, and an outlet to allow purging. Without this, writers become like stagnant ponds, or dead seas, and far more interested in a tweeting shallow acceptance from others of like mind.
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We the writers, as a fraternity of kindred spirits, have an obligation to wisely use all the tools and colors at our disposal to explore and express what comes through us. This, despite how some readers cry and complain because they don't understand, or they can't cerebrate outside the box of their own restrictions. It's an embarrassment when readers (who claim to be writers and poets) cry because they don't understand the more advanced or beautiful words, and the more forward-thinking elements of philology.
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There is an inescapable and humorous irony associated with pursuing authorship and poetry. One must be introspective to reveal the gift, ferociously disciplined to develop the gift, diligent and fearless to display the gift, and forever hopeful that upon the revealing there is understanding and acceptance.
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Nothing of worth ever seems to be accomplished without enduring more than we think is necessary.
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Certainly, an individual’s view of things depends entirely on what the mind aspires to. Simplicity can be delusory. At least it has been (at times) in my personal experiences. A more thorough view, to see more of the whole, results in finding a better path to walk. Not necessarily an easier path, but one illuminated in a way that allows the seeker to see the potholes, the rocks, the snakes (etc.) and to avoid them.
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Each of our life experiences program us differently. Analyzing, forming opinions, pretending... some pursue the arts/writing for popularity, some for acceptance, some for the adventure, some to compete with others, some to purge the troubles of a lifetime, some for fun, some for the challenge, some to share opinions, and some for accuracy.
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Sometimes you must let go of the mental picture of what you thought your life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are living. *