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But i believed in starting over. there was finally, i knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. if i could not be anchored and profound, i would try, at least, to be kind.

-Lorrie Moore

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But I Believed In Starting Over. There

Lorrie Moore

But i believed in starting over. there was finally, i knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. if i could not be anchored and profound, i would try, at least, to be kind.

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Hurt Revenge Fall

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Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is nozick's definition of revenge. and in that sense, adi is exacting revenge. when people ask, "does adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. but in nozick's formulation, it is revenge. that is the essence of revenge.

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. and in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. we all are falling. this hand falls. and look at others: it is in them all. and yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

This is a gathering of lovers. in this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. there is no master, no disciple. this gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. this is a gathering of lovers.

There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. if you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. when we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

I do believe i begin to grasp the nature of miracles! for would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? miracles have nothing to do with reason. miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. if they made sense, they would not be miracles.

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