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Posted by just_justin_555 at 05:37 PM on October 2, 2008.

We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us.

If it has terrors, they are our terrors;

if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us;

if there are dangers we must try to love them.

And only if we arrange our lives in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult,

what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience.

-Rainier Maria Rilke

Flock to me, my wayward sheep.

You Who Never Arrived

Posted by just_justin_555 at 08:54 PM on July 5, 2007.

by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated from German by Stephen Mitchell)

You who never arrived

in my arms, Beloved, who were lost

from the start,

I don’t even know what songs

would please you. I have given up trying

to recognize you in the surging wave of the next

moment. All the immense

images in me—the far-off, deeply-felt landscape,

cities, towers, and bridges, and un-

suspected turns in the path,

and those powerful lands that were once

pulsing with the life of the gods—

all rise within me to mean

you, who forever elude me.

You, Beloved, who are all

the gardens I have ever gazed at,

longing. An open window

in a country house—, and you almost

stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon,—

you had just walked down then and vanished.

And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors

were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back

my too-sudden. Who knows? perhaps the same

bird echoed through both of us

yesterday, separate, in the evening…

Flock to me, my wayward sheep.

Posted by just_justin_555 at 10:26 PM on September 22, 2006.

I'd like to point out:

N.S.T.P. = No Stopping The Poverty

Vae Victis.

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Posted by just_justin_555 at 01:14 PM on June 16, 2006.

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."

- Lorraine Hansberry

Flock to me, my wayward sheep.

Yeah, I figured...

Posted by just_justin_555 at 02:01 PM on April 1, 2006.

You Are Mr. Burns

Okay, so you're evil...

You have big plans to rule the world, and you'll destroy it in the process if necessary!

You will be remembered for: the exploitation of the masses

Life philosophy: "One dollar for eternal happiness? I'd be happier with the dollar."

The Simpsons Personality Test

Flock to me, my wayward sheep.