"Keep your wings healthy and strong: fly high fly long"
Flying Lesson
Between piety and dubiety Betwixt fundamentalism and doubt Stands the golden mean of satiety Wherein the soul soars but never flies blind
While those souls on the fringes flail about Faith and reason in their season heart and mind In equipoise avoid the noise and strife Of the unbalanced and unexamined life
When fringes fail extremes have sorely tried When what has been is gone let go and be Come find the middle and be satisfied To be full of now and open to love
Finding unity in variety With no one beneath you and no one above Past drunkenness beyond sobriety From that which might have been to the golden mean
Seek not the overfullness born of greed Wrapped in the cheap self-printed cloth of sloth But that balance between excess and need The satisfaction of satiety
Trust but verify claim yet clarify For there is really but one society To be shared by all and by you and me Keep your wings healthy and strong: fly high fly long
+Steven Curtis Lance
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Reviewed by Franziska Brueggerhoff (Reader)
Reviewed on January 17, 2006
inspiring, beautiful, truly liberating
"Wherein the soul soars but never flies blind"
"fly high fly long"
So hard at times, yet so true. At that point where we are balanced we are truly "flyng high and long"-proof as to where we should be. Very fine, Steven!
Deep write and full of secret meanings I think, I see a lot of light though that filters through here and there to give the reader hints of the inner struggle with the reality of this world you want to project. This one is a definate publishable piece my friend.
Dear Steve
Flying lesson is superb!
'In equipoise avoid the noise and strife'
'...Come find the middle and be satisfied..'
'...With no one beneath you and no one above..'
'...But that balance between excess and need..'
'...Trust but verify claim yet clarify
For there is really but one society
To be shared by all and by you and me..'
Truly beautiful affirmation for life! Thank you for sharing!
Love & Flight
Suzie :-)
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"Wherein the soul soars but never flies blind"
"fly high fly long"
*Franziska
Regis
Thank you!!
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Felix
Flying lesson is superb!
'In equipoise avoid the noise and strife'
'...Come find the middle and be satisfied..'
'...With no one beneath you and no one above..'
'...But that balance between excess and need..'
'...Trust but verify claim yet clarify
For there is really but one society
To be shared by all and by you and me..'
Truly beautiful affirmation for life! Thank you for sharing!
Love & Flight
Suzie :-)