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We hold on to the forms we perceive with the eye... I'm sorry, I'm not trying to echo Buddhism, I continue: We try to grab running water until our knuckles turn white, and we'll do this for 100 years and never realize the innate stupidity, still King Arthur searched for the holy grail of eternal life. You ache and moan, twist and turn and even on the mornings that your wishes are granted your mind diverts and seeks to cling to something other.  Something that you don't have, that something which injects a serum that will surely fill that aching cavity. Though that emptiness is a recess in the mind that avoids confrontation and betrays all the treasures in the world, even had they been given to you. And even if you acquired everything, you would hold your stomach as a child in hunger at those who seemed even happier than you though they clearly had less.
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 9:33 PM UTC
Your eyes are bigger than your stomach
We hold on to the forms we perceive with the eye... I'm sorry, I'm not trying to echo Buddhism, I continue: We try to grab running water until our knuckles turn white, and we'll do this for 100 years and never realize the innate stupidity, still King Arthur searched for the holy grail of eternal life. You ache and moan, twist and turn and even on the mornings that your wishes are granted your mind diverts and seeks to cling to something other.  Something that you don't have, that something which injects a serum that will surely fill that aching cavity. Though that emptiness is a recess in the mind that avoids confrontation and betrays all the treasures in the world, even had they been given to you. And even if you acquired everything, you would hold your stomach as a child in hunger at those who seemed even happier than you though they clearly had less.
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 9:33 PM UTC
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