Excerpt from Part 1

The road to wisdom is paved with all the stones of adversity, one side of the stone containing the difficulty and the other side of the stone holding the lesson learned from it.

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Like the ebb and flow of the ocean, so too is life. To expect lifes experiences to remain the same is expecting the ocean to remain stagnant.

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Its better to have deaf ears than to lose all sense of hearing.

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Those who know the rules the best, best know how to break them.

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Love understands no negative words.

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The meaning of life is what life means to you.

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Excerpt from Part 2

The Room of Darkness

There is no shame in visiting the room of darkness,
Sometimes necessary to heal the wounds of pain.
But when the time is finished, one must find the key,
Finding the passage, to leave the room.

The key is always there in the darkness,
Sometimes small and hard to find.
We can help others find their key,
But ultimately, it is they who must be the ones to see.

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Stranger Truth

Planning for
The party of masquerade,
Carefully choosing all masks
To wear,

Expectations
And knowing who will attend,
Who will recognize, deciding
Each,

Mask of
Truth, suited for illusion,
Truly was the mask
Of masquerade.