The Smoker, 1635-36 By Joos Van Craesbeeck (Flemish, C.1605–c.1661)

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BREAK-UP Jazz song I wrote

I See The Darkness in you, I now see the light in me 

Our relationship had to begin

Before it could come to an end, 

I had to see where it would go, 

Endless possibilities.

Love it’s keeping us on our toes, 

The music in our ears, 

Narrating along as the story goes. 

Will there be wedding bells, 

A honeymoon in Beirut. 

Can you see us 

We’re riding Arabian horses 

Across the sands. 

Life is out of our hands. 

 suddenly, the sun shined

Down on me.  

My eyes gave off an aqueous flare, 

I see the darkness in you, 

I now see the light in me, 

Baby, you are full of toxicity.

I am glad that you’re gone, 

I’m full of vitamin D 

I’ve got good friends and 

The beautiful world around me

Light beams down

 on the ground, I walk. 

I have to tread lightly baby, 

Because I am so hot. 

Enjoy what life has to give, 

Aloha meaning goodbye, 

Because I am not going to 

Give you a thought. 

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Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and God.

It is this screen of thought that creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion that there is you and a totally separate “other.” You then forget the essential fact that, underneath the level of physical appearances and separate forms, you are one with all that is.

By “forget,” I mean that you can no longer feel this oneness as self-evident reality. You may believe it to be true, but you no longer know it to be true. A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Eckhart Tolle

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