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Category: Book of Benji

  • Desiring Nothing = Possessing All

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    I was at work today on a personal call and had an epiphany or maybe just a duh moment. You all know that rule. The one that states that when your with someone, that everybody wants you and when you single, nobody does. Its been said a million different ways like, “a watched pot never…

  • I plea insanity

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    I finally understand madness. Its one of those, “You had to be there” or “Walk a mile in another man shoes” kinda deal. I won’t say what caused it or if I’m better yet but I thought it would be a good idea to get it all written down in case I ever find my…

  • Tsuiokuhen and Seisouhen

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      There are few true masterpieces in this world. Works of perfection so pure and untouched that the mere observance or interaction with them magnifies one’s own flaws so much that one must take actions to better them self. Maybe that is the purpose of a masterpiece, to encourage one to realize the masterpiece within…

  • Worst Analogy Ever!

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    I have all of my little cousins here and they love the Wii. (duh) I got to eat alot and see a few of my aunties. I wonder if I’ll ever be able to hold the family together like they did? I could never see myself as one of the older people at a family…

  • In the mirror staring back

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    When I was like 4 and 5 I would stare at myself in the mirror. I never really understood it, I just know what I saw. I would stare into my eyes looking for something, anything. And like a photo developing my preferential vision would blur and fade away and all I would see would…

  • 3 in the morning insomnia at my door

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    So JV and Sarah are coming to visit tomorrow, and my place is spic n span waiting for them, and my babies get their tonsils out tomorrow, I have special hugs waiting for them. Without further adieu my 4 AM rant. We come to you live with crusties still in my eyes. International text messaging…

  • IF YOU THINK YOU CAN

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    “We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabolous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the…

  • A Good Word from a Good Book

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    “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining…

  • Don’t walk the walk if you can’t stir the coals

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    World’s Toughest Cowboy Three cowboys are sitting around a campfire, out on the lonesome prairie, each with the bravado for which cowboys are famous. A night of tall tales commences. The first says, “I must be the meanest, toughest cowboy there is. Why, just the other day, a bull got loose in the corral and…

  • That girl good!

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    “go for it….if you know that its what you want, dont hold back. if you hold back youre just going to short change yourself…you can go as high as you reach, as deep as you can see, and dream as much as you can be”