A Bibliography of Learning ____AKSHR

 

A Bibliography of Learning

 

If learning is an act of exploration, then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime.

Without books and maps, the explorer would have to memorize everything. The exploration might never begin.

Without a compass, the explorer would become lost in an endless labyrinth of dead-ends.

Without a map, he wouldn't know where to go next.

Without a radio, he would never know what discoveries had already been made by other explorers.

And without a map or radio, he wouldn't be able to communicate with home base.

The explorer would never know when to go home.

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Of All the Things You Wear ____ AKSHR

 

Of All the Things You Wear

 

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important

You keep it as a tight-rope walker keeps her balance

She knows she is a target, and that all eyes are on her

It’s like you’re holding yourself up by your eyebrows

Your body language is all in your face

But you can’t be too careful, or people will talk

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Give every day the chance ____ AKSHR

Give every day the chance

 

Give every day the chance to become 

the most beautiful day of your life.

Give every day the chance to become a gift.

Give yourself that chance.

Give your sorrows and anxieties 

a chance to fall away.

Give your grief a chance to be received by 

the earth and transformed into flowers, trees, rivers.

Give your love a chance to reach out 

and touch someone you don’t know.

Give every day the chance to become a blessing.

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We’re All in This Together ____ AKSHR

We’re All in This Together

 

In true love, you attain freedom.

It’s the key to happiness.

All the weight of aching, all the pain

and resentment and regret: they disappear.

 

And you know that life is not about what

you can get out of it, but what you can give.

Without it, 

your days are just a series of moments,

little boxes with nothing inside. 

But when you love—

when you love someone enough to forgive them—

you find yourself at peace.

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Water for Drinking and for Fire, Water for Dying ____ AKSHR

Water for Drinking and for Fire, Water for Dying

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

You may be a man or a woman or both.

You may be in the moment, or in the future.

Without you, there would be no map of your body,

no scar on your knee from when you fell off your bike,

no bruise under your left eye from when you were born.

 

No childhood, no adolescence, no marriage.

No children to grow up and have their own children.

You can paint with words a picture of how things were,

and another of how they will be when you are gone.

You can tell stories about yourself that are not true: 

fictions based on fact.

You can be a warrior, you can be a poet.

You may not know what you want to do with your life, 

but you are alive, so everything is possible.

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We are most alive when we’re in love _____ AKSHR

We are most alive when we’re in love

We are most alive when we’re in love

or when we’re walking in the rain

or because we have eaten too much of the wrong thing

and are running to throw up, or letting go.

You are most alive when you’re in love

or when you’re walking in the rain

or because you have eaten too much of the wrong thing

and are running to throw up, or letting go.

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To make your own Eden ---- AKSHR

To make your own Eden

There is only one happiness in this life,

to love and be loved

To make your own Eden,

to be your own God

and each one of us at some point must

find it within ourselves to know

that we are not just alive but living inside

a story that is always being written.

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