THE ROAD

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"God made the world round

so we would never be able to see

too far down the road."

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Isak Dinesen

Danish Author (1885-1962)

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"The traveler that resolutely follows a rough

and winding path will sooner reach the end of

his journey than he that is always changing his

direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in

looking for smoother ground and

shorter passages.”

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Samuel Johnson

English Poet, Critic and Writer (1709-1784)

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The content in the video below is positive,

but some folks might find it a little over-optimistic,

and maybe too "new age'ish" for their taste.

Nonetheless, there's some terrific video of dolphins,

 and the message seems well-intentioned.

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“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.”
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      J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Day 16 - THE TIME OF NO ROOM

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Day 16 of The Advent Series is here:

http://maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2011/12/time-of-no-room.html

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PRAYERS FOR THE BLUE PLANET

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Prayer for a blue planet

Our Father of the Heavens:
Your whole creation, sun, moon, stars and this earthly orb, which you made with your hands in all its fragile beauty, and every creature of this earth to which you have given life, all of them testify to your power and grace, save only man whose mouth is stopped with words. Forgive us for what we speak and do not speak. Forgive our world, your world, which you have left us free to nurture and to defile. Make yourself known to all who are broken in spirit or in flesh, and that is all of us. We long for your peace, which the world can neither give nor take away, the peace that exists only in the eye of the storm, and the heart of the battle. Give us finally the joy of the child born to Mary, whose mercy stretches out across the skies. Amen.

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 Peter Ogle

Cancer Survivor, Corvallis, Oregon

 From his blog THE OGLER

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BLUE WORLD

by Justin Hayward of THE MOODY BLUES

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Heart and soul took control
Took control of me
Paid my dues spread the news
Hands across the sea
Put me down turned me round
Turned me round to see
Marble halls open doors
Someone found the key
And it's only what you do
That keeps coming back on you
And it's only what you say
That can give yourself away
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Underground sight and sound
human Symphony
Heard the voice had no choice
needed to be free
Fly me high touch the sky
Left the earth below
Heard the line saw the sign
Knew which way to go
Cos it's easier to try
Than to prove it can't be done
And it's easier to stay
Than to turn around and run
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It's a blue world
It takes somebody to help somebody
Oh it's a blue world
It's a new world
It needs somebody to love somebody
Oh it's a blue world
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Heart and soul took control
Took control of me
Paid my dues spread the news
Hands across the sea
Put me down turned me round
Turned me round to see
Marble halls open doors
Someone found the key
And it's only what you do
That keeps coming back on you
And it's only what you say
That can give yourself away
Cos it's easier to try
Than to prove it can't be done
And it's easier to stay
Than to turn around and run
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It's a blue world
It takes somebody to help somebody
Oh it's a blue world
It's a new world
It needs somebody to love somebody
Oh it's a blue world
It's a blue world
It takes somebody to help somebody
Oh it's a blue world
It's a new world
It needs somebody to love somebody
Oh it's a blue world

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A silent prayer for those who do not speak
From our large blue planet to the unborn, small and meek
Pray for all our brothers and sisters to be aware that all is
connected to The One.
 To the Father and the Spirit and His only begotten Son
That all life is sacred, and all life has the right
To live as soul intended, for this, we all must fight
So let your silence now be heard as the evil tries to sway
Or else nothing will be left when it comes to Judgement Day….

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Lisa P. Donato 
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THE ETERNAL AND DIVINE PURPOSE

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There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. We are all part of an immense plan, a gigantic enterprise, and it is the vastness of the undertaking that renders it impossible to see very much of it at any one time and during any one life. We are all a part of an eternal project which the Gods are supervising and outworking. The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves on majestically through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.

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The eternal purpose of the eternal God is a high spiritual ideal. The events of time and the struggles of material existence are but the transient scaffolding which bridges over to the other side, to the promised land of spiritual reality and supernal existence. Of course, you mortals find it difficult to grasp the idea of an eternal purpose; you are virtually unable to comprehend the thought of eternity, something never beginning and never ending. Everything familiar to you has an end.

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 As regards an individual life, the duration of a realm, or the chronology of any connected series of events, it would seem that we are dealing with an isolated stretch of time; everything seems to have a beginning and an end. And it would appear that a series of such experiences, lives, ages, or epochs, when successively arranged, constitutes a straightaway drive, an isolated event of time flashing momentarily across the infinite face of eternity. But when we look at all this from behind the scenes, a more comprehensive view and a more complete understanding suggest that such an explanation is inadequate, disconnected, and wholly unsuited properly to account for, and otherwise to correlate, the transactions of time with the underlying purposes and basic reactions of eternity.

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 To me it seems more fitting, for purposes of explanation to the mortal mind, to conceive of eternity as a cycle and the eternal purpose as an endless circle, a cycle of eternity in some way synchronized with the transient material cycles of time. As regards the sectors of time connected with, and forming a part of, the cycle of eternity, we are forced to recognize that such temporary epochs are born, live, and die just as the temporary beings of time are born, live, and die. Most human beings die because, having failed to achieve the spirit level of Adjuster fusion, the metamorphosis of death constitutes the only possible procedure whereby they may escape the fetters of time and the bonds of material creation, thereby being enabled to strike spiritual step with the progressive procession of eternity. Having survived the trial life of time and material existence, it becomes possible for you to continue on in touch with, even as a part of, eternity, swinging on forever with the worlds of space around the circle of the eternal ages.

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 The sectors of time are like the flashes of personality in temporal form; they appear for a season, and then they are lost to human sight, only to reappear as new actors and continuing factors in the higher life of the endless swing around the eternal circle. Eternity can hardly be conceived as a straightaway drive, in view of our belief in a delimited universe moving over a vast, elongated circle around the central dwelling place of the Universal Father.

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 Frankly, eternity is incomprehensible to the finite mind of time. You simply cannot grasp it; you cannot comprehend it. I do not completely visualize it, and even if I did, it would be impossible for me to convey my concept to the human mind. Nevertheless, I have done my best to portray something of our viewpoint, to tell you somewhat of our understanding of things eternal. I am endeavoring to aid you in the crystallization of your thoughts about these values which are of infinite nature

 and eternal import.

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 There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are yours for the striving!

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 The goal of eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of that good spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out

 upon all flesh.

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LOST IN A LOST WORLD

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I woke up today, I was crying,

Lost in a lost world.

So many people are dying,

Lost in a lost world.

Some of them are living an illusion,

Bounded by the darkness of their minds.

In their eyes it's nation against

nation against nation,

With racial pride.

Sad hearts they hide

Thinking only of themselves,

They shun the light,

(somehow they shun the light)

They think they're right,

(somehow they think they're right)

Living in their empty shells.

Oh, can you see their world is crashing

(so many people, so many people)

Crashing down around their feet

And angry people in the street,

Are telling them they've had their fill

(so many people)

Of politics that wound and kill

(so many people)

Grow, the seeds of evolution

(so many people, so many people)

Revolution never won

It's just another form of gun

To do again what they have done

(so many people, so many people)

With all our brothers, youngest sons.

(so many people, so many people)

Everywhere you go you'll

see them searching

Everywhere you turn you'll feel the pain

Everyone is looking for the answer

Well look again.

Come on my friend,

Love will find them in the end

Come on my friend, we've got to bend

On our knees and say a prayer.

Oh, can you feel the world is pining

(so many people, so many people)

Pining for someone who really cares

Enough to share his love,

With all of us so we can be

(so many people)

An ever loving family.

(so many people)

Oh, have you forgotten we're all children

(so many people, so many people)

Children from a family tree

That's longer than a centipede

And started long ago when you and I

(so many people, so many people)

Were only love--

(so many people, so many people)

I woke up today, I was crying,

Lost in a lost world,

So many people are dying,

Lost in a lost world.

So many people, so many people, people

Lost in a lost world

So many people, so many people, people

Lost in a lost world
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Michael Pinder

The Moody Blues

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EARTH DAY 2010 - LOST IN A LOST WORLD

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This isn't really a "video" so much,

as it is a song by The Moody Blues with

simply a title and the album jacket for visuals -

I didn't have time to edit something

more interesting.

But I thought the song was important

to play - today of all days.

The environmental movement battles still

go on, but the war is now basically lost.

As to why it was lost, and what it means,

will be addressed in coming posts.

The song is "Lost In A Lost World,"

written by Mike Pinder.

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ONE STEP INTO THE LIGHT

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One step into the light

One step away from night

It's the hardest step you're gonna take

The ship to take you there

Is waiting at the head

Of the stairs that lead up through your

opened mind

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Above the dark despair

Shines a light that we can share

Close your eyes and look up in between

your brows

Then slowly breathing in

Feel the LIFE FORCE streaming in

Hold it there

Then send it back to him

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All the old things are returning

Cosmic circles ever turning

All the truth we've been yearning for

Life is our saviour, saviour, saviour,

save your soul

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The river of LIVING BREATH

Is flowing through the SUN

He was there before the earth began

The world will drag on you

Use his love to pull you through

Find the mission of YOUR LIFE and

start to BE

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All the old things are returning

Cosmic circles ever turning

All the truth we've been yearning for

Life is our saviour, saviour, saviour,

save your soul

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There's one thing I can do

Play my Mellotron for you

Try to blow away your city blues

Your dreams are not unfound

Get your feet back on the ground

The TRUTH will set us FREE,

we cannot lose

We cannot love, we just have to CHOOSE

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Michael Pinder

The Moody Blues
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YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME

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I don't know what I'm searching for
I never have opened the door,
Tomorrow might find me at last,
Turning my back on the past,
But, time will tell, of stars that fell,
A million years ago.
Memories can never take you back, home, sweet home.
You can never go home anymore.

All my life I never really knew me till today,
Now I know why, I'm just another step along the way,

I lie awake for hours, I'm just waiting for the sun.
When the journey we are making has begun,
Don't deny the feeling that is stealing

through your heart,
Every happy ending needs to have a start.

All my life I never really knew me till today,
Now I know why, I'm just another step along the way,

Weep no more for treasures you've been

searching for in vain.
'Cos the truth is gently falling with the rain,
High above the forest lie the pastures of the sun,
Where the two that learned the secret are now one.

I don't know what I'm searching for
I never have opened the door,
Tomorrow might find me at last,
Turning my back on the past,
But, time will tell, of stars that fell,
A million years ago.
Memories can never take you back, home, sweet home.
You can never go home anymore.

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Justin Hayward

The Moody Blues