Reality on Shine

TWILIGHT

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Nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change, lest we become unwitting victims in obscurity.

User post: Why Wont He Take The Next Step?

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I've been in a relationship with my boyfriend for a total of 5 years. Over this time period, our relationship has gone NOWHERE! It's stll in the same position as it was when we first started dating. For the last 2 years, I've been really pushing him to make a move. This year, I went so…

Lady at the Jewelry Store

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Dainty

There was once a guy who suffered from cancer... a cancer that can't be treated. He was in his 30’s and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he…

The Waiting Game

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Tell Me What It Is Come--tell me what love is. Love--that fickle idea of man-- That eludes and escapes those who wish to define it. Love is the rainbow at the storms end. The final chord in the grand syphony. The unwritten stanza that can communicate a message-- Universally. It is the finale to the fireworks on the Fourth of July-- Another Riddle of the Sphinx, and always--eternally--Life's greatest mystery. Unexpected, unpredictable--and bringer of joy or-- Heartbreak. You are the complete of the puzzle-- And the puzzle itself. Come--tell me what love is-- and tell my heart why it tears itself from my grasp... And mourn with me that the colors and notes have faded away-- before I could find some paper.

A REAL HEART

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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, and is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act…

ALONE

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Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

It had been raining for…

MOTHER AND SON

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She looked at the photograph of her son. He would always be seven years old, tow haired and missing two front teeth. Grasping the framed photo tighter in her quivering hands, so tight that the corners of the brass colored left impressions in her flesh, she looked at the American flag covered…

There was a Man Who Wanted To Achieve Everything in Life

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Once upon a time, there lived a man who wanted to achieve everything he was capable of achieving. He was obsessed with this desire. He ate, slept, and walked with one and only dream: to die, having accomplished every single thing he was able to accomplish.

There were so many things he could…

User post: Remembering 9/11—How tragedy united us

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As I sit here at my computer, enjoying the end of a much-needed rainy day, my thoughts turn to the picture perfect day that turned out to be one of the most tragic days in our lives, 9/11.

It seems almost inconsiderate to mention how beautifully 9/11/2001 began. I was living in a duplex at that time and my bedroom window was positioned in such a way that it gave me a wonderful view of the sunrise. I only had to open one eye to see the bright orange ball slowly lift up beyond the daybreak. That September morning featured a perfectly clear blue day and a glorious sunrise.