<p>Today is a gift from God — that is why it is called the present.</p>

<p>Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.</p>

<p>Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do$$$ you start missing everybody.</p>

<p>The wound is the place where the Light enters you.</p>

<p>What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.<br />
What are brief? today and tomorrow.<br />
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.<br />
What are deep? the ocean and truth.</p>

<p>I've lived to bury my desires$$$<br />
And see my dreams corrode with rust;<br />
Now all thats left are fruitless fires<br />
That burn my empty heart to dust.</p>

<p>All Nature is but Art$$$ unknown to thee;<br />
All Chance$$$ Direction$$$ which thou canst not see;<br />
All Discord$$$ Harmony$$$ not understood;<br />
All partial Evil$$$ universal Good:<br />
And$$$ spite of Pride$$$ in erring Reason's spite$$$<br />
One truth is clear$$$ "Whatever IS$$$ is RIGHT."</p>

<p>I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past$$$ even the grimy parts of it$$$ well$$$ it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.</p>

<p>I used to believe in forever$$$ but forever's too good to be true.</p>

<p>But at my back I always hear Time's wing'd chariot hurrying near. And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.</p>