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Monday, March 4, 2002

BOBBY GRAHAM
ANALOGIES DO NOT HAVE THE POWER TO PROVE ANYTHING!
Until you can offer evidence you cannot claim any definition of
these mysteries is any more valid than any one else's claims.
_____________
NINA
Hehe, I was wondering when things would get around to this: the root
in one's own neediness.
Here's another twist:
I have found that I am compelled to help others, in fact, there seems
to be this magnetic FORCE that draws needy people to me. Is it helper
pheromones? I don't know. Walk down the street, and every person
needing a 'cup of coffee' (or name your beverage) or a few quarters
for the bus or food for their kids or directions or conversation or
attention or an outlet or a whipping board appears in my path. Even
if I am in a group of people, these people come directly for me.
There are all kinds of need around me. So many ways of manifesting.
I have learned to recognize 'natural need' (which I may oblige)
and 'toxic need' (which I do not)... and to put my own needs first.
This is an odd twist on compassion, eh?
~~~~
GREG GOODE
This is great wisdom, whether applied to "one's own" needs or the needs of "others'"!
_____________
JAN BARENDRECHT

ANAGRAMS

understanding of self - finer godsend flaunts
self and bliss - badness fills
self and fortune - resentful and of... self-abasement - false name best
self-abuse - safe blues
self-accusation - unsocial facets
self-acting - face glints
self-actualize - faculties' zeal
self-admirer - dearer films
self-analytic - clean falsity
self-applause - ape plus fleas
self-appointed - finest dope, pal
self-asserting - tireless fangs
self-centered - reflects need
self-chastisement - finest aches smelt
self-conceit - conflict, see!
self-conscious - fool in success
self-contained - enclosed in fat!
self-contradiction - ordinate conflicts
self-denial - defines all
self-depreciation - if delicate person
self-destruct - rust deflects
self-identification - infinite of dialects
self-image - mega files
self-immolation - fame to millions
self-importance - farce, simpleton!
self-improvement - left prime venoms
self-interest - inserts fleet!
self-limited - lifted smile
self-love - levels of
self-mortification - is official torment
self-mutilation - all-out feminist
self-proclaimed - flares compiled
self-promotion - molest if porno
self-published - Bush if spelled
self-purification - unofficial priest
self-realization - laziest if loner
self-reliance - life's cleaner
self-righteous - huge fist, loser!
selfish - flesh is!
self and relationship - finest paranoid hells
[
Jan
_____________________
GLORIA LEE sends
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Riley
To: Hafiz

WISE MEN KEEP TALKING ABOUT
Time is the shop
Where everyone works hard
To build enough love
To break the
Shackle.
Wise men keep talking about
Wanting to meet Her.
Women sometimes pronounce the word God
A little differently:
They can use more feeling and skill
With the heart-lute.
All the world's movements,
Apparent chaos, and suffering I now know happen
In the Splendid Unison:
Our tambourines are striking
The same thigh.
Hafiz stands
At a juncture in this poem.
There are a thousand new wheels I could craft
On a wagon
And place you in -
Lead you to a glimpse of the culture
And seasons in another dimension.
Yet again God
Will have to drop you back at the shop
Where you still have work
With
Love.
("The Gift" -- versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky; orginal presentation by David Williamson)

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