“what cures people – ?”

”I remember the first time I went to the aquarium

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still: if you raved, my arms should confine you, and not a strait waistcoat—your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me: if you flew at me as wildly as only a woman can , I should receive you in an embrace, at least as fond as it would be restrictive. I should not shrink from you with disgust as I did other times in my life: in your quiet moments you should have no watcher and no nurse but me; and I could hang over you with untiring tenderness, even if you gave me no smile in return; and never weary of gazing into your eyes, though they had no longer a ray of recognition for me. Even if we get old and forget about our story. i will be there as you where there when i got saved. You will be there forever and I will be yours even if you dont want me

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment

I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world with me in it

I remember the first time I went to the aquarium

I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment

I remember the first time I went to the aquarium

I remember the first time I went to the aquarium (or I’m never alone now)

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment

I will always remember the first time I went to the aquarium

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment

-  enlightenment -

“There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return is everyday..”

I remember the first time I went to the aquarium

We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. Even longer,’ Pooh answered.’”

I remember the first time I went to the aquarium at Okinawa Aquarium -

I remember the first time I went to the aquarium

I remember the first time I went to the aquarium

I remember the first time I went to the aquarium

- (…) what changed (…) -

Everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my sadness wasn’t half of world distance, it wasn’t the chemicals or the burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go. Is ignorance bliss? I don’t know, but it’s so painful, and tell me, what did not acting ever do for me, to what great place did being still ever bring me?

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I remember the first time I went to the aquarium