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Strength

by @micabat

Strength Is not Keeping your head Above the waves It is sitting calmly opposite an advancing typhoon Perfectly unstirred, And perfectly unimpressed By nothingness Strength Is not Overcoming But remembering Your immeasurable Greatness It is surrendering Yourself To the pull Of the seabed And laughing At the notion Of death
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Mar 26, 2016
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#love#meditation#strength#mysticism#buddhism#overcoming#conquering#taoism
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