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Jewel -- Only Kindness Matters -- Lyrics
If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfsS3pIDBfw
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot, in the Four Quartets
...And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him
He said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them...
Suzanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkamRumVXn4
The men you are in these times deride
What has been done of good, you find explanations
To satisfy the rational and enlightened mind.
...
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
…
I will show you the things that are now being done,
And some of the things that were long ago done,
That you may take heart. Make perfect your will.
Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
...
In the vacant places
We will build with new bricks
There are hands and machines
And clay for new brick
And lime for new mortar
Where the bricks are fallen
We will build with new stone
Where the beams are rotten
We will build with new timbers
Where the word is unspoken
We will build with new speech
T.S. Eliot -- Choruses from “The Rock”
Short Obligatory Prayer
To be recited once in twenty-four hours, at noon
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth.
There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
—Bahá’u’lláh
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot, in the Four Quartets
...And though we are few
We're surrounded by many
Who have crossed that river before
And this is the song we'll be
singing forever
Holy is the Lord
Holy is the Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OGreASOd4c
The end
is only
just
beginning…