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don’t need to hear how scary the world is and how I shouldn’t try anything. I don’t need to know how much suffering there is out there,” he pointed out the window, “or how bad I should feel about it. What I need…” he looked up, his grey eyes pleading, “…is to see someone who is still happy after growing up.”
Why is there always conflict between what I want and what everyone expects? Why can’t there be just a single answer or a single path in life? A path nobody could question?
“In the Isshin-Ryu, just as in art, actions must be done wholeheartedly. And all things great begin with one person. One heart way.”
Ronin said, “I find certain individuals to be like obsidian,” he crossed his arms, “those formed amidst the violence and heat of the world.”
The possible springs from the thinking man—to make it real is his exaltation. Mae Black.
To make something like this is to feel respect for the possible…and for one’s self.
“You will pay for your mistakes—as we all must—but never accept guilt for something you didn’t do, or accept guilt for what others believe.”
Keep ye power mongers, from our land. Give us your thinkers, who will not obey you, your landless, who wish to own this earth, your creators, who wish to produce, your poor, who desire wealth, your rich, who long for justice, and your compelled, who wish to live free. Send us these, the living, from your oppressed lands, that they may seek exaltation upon this earth.
