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[asmyth]

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We
strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is
the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead
there comes no word; but in the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening
love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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>From the midst of the menhirs
It seems the world
Was born right here
And here returns

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The quote was by Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) It was a eulogy at his brothers grave:

He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A
thousand times I have heard him quote these words: "For Justice all
place a temple, and all season, summer." He believed that happiness
is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship,
humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to
the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving
service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight
beneath a wilderness of flowers.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two
eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry
aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the
voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in
the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the
rustle of a wing.

He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of
death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath,
"I am better now." Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas,
of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the
countless dead.

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the
memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a
perfumed flower.

And now, to you, who have been chosen, from among the many men
he loved, to do the last sad office for the dead, we give his
sacred dust.

Speech cannot contain our love. There was, there is, no
gentler, stronger, manlier man.

I asked for answers

[MaggieMae]

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[dmax]

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[Myssfitz]

thank you damx. I was just coming to post this here I am still tring to find out where it's from.

I asked for help with seeking the doorway to other dimensions.

[KyraB]

Seeking The Wish & The Truth, i wrote: There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Thomas Jefferson

and received: (from Alan Watts' definitive account of what he calls 'The Game of God')

Every positive statement about ultimate things must be made in the suggestive form of myth, of poetry. For in this realm the direct and indicative forms of speech can only say "neti, neti" (Sanskrit for "no, no"), since what can be described and categorized must always belong to the conventional realm. Mythis a symbolic story which demonstrates the inner meaning of the universe and of human life.
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From the midst of the menhirs
It seems the world
Was born right here
And here returns

a guide will be in touch soon in response to your request

[Barbarellany]

I asked for answers and got the same one as Myssfitz. I haven't found the reference yet either.

[LazarusLong]

Every positive statement about ultimate things must be made in the suggestive form of myth, of poetry. For in this realm the direct and indicative forms of speech can only say "neti, neti" (Sanskrit for "no, no"), since what can be described and categorized must always belong to the conventional realm. Mythis a symbolic story which demonstrates the inner meaning of the universe and of human life.
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From the midst of the menhirs
It seems the world
Was born right here
And here returns

a guide will be in touch soon in response to your request


It is a quote from The Art of Zen, by Alan Watts.

I asked "Veritas - I seek the truth"

[Diandra]

I asked for knowledge, and I found my passage in an English translation of 'The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu'. This translation is called "The SHOSHIN SUTRA" (The Beginners Mind Sutra) and is the primary text for Shoshin Zen. The entire text is lengthy, but here's a link if you care to read it. http://www.geocities.com/shoshindojo/

[AbuAmaal]

I didn't ask for anything, just sent a quotation consisting
mainly of Coleridge and a touch of WS.

[Aveena]

[LazarusLong]

myssfitz quote is from "Calypso and Calypsonians", by Alice Schwartz.

The original German text is here:
http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/fpm/popscrip/themen/pst03/pst03060.htm

[Myssfitz]

dmax's reply was from the Tao Te Ching also, but from Chapter 78 (see his above, it's the first one)

[Myssfitz]

[KyraB]

The last line seems to be taken out of context because i found "inner meaning of the universe and of human life" in many places referencing Watts, but nothing with the whole sentence...weird...