Some There Be That Shadows Kiss.

(Today, I was engaged in some shadow play.)


Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.

- William Shakespeare, (The Merchant of Venice)


I seek substance in a shadow's kiss;
And was thus undernourished.

- Ghostwise

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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)


I played with shadows for so long,
That I could not tell,
Which is me and which is the shadow.

- Ghostwise

What To Say To A Dying Man?

(Today I was privy to hear the amazing last lesson given by a dying man, hear for yourself - http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw)

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

- Neil Gaiman


I thought about it for a long time but I still cannot come up with anything sincere to say to a dying man except "may the rest of your life be a happy one".

- Ghostwise

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“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

- Pope Paul VI


This is exactly what we should be doing but we always think there will be tomorrows enough.

- Ghostwise

Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day

"Look to this day,
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence;
the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day,
such is the salutation of the dawn."

- The Sufi (1200 BC)


Look to this day, for it is all you have.
Don't mislead yourself about tomorrow.
For if you do not live this day well
You have no tomorrow.

- Ghostwise

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"Nothing is worth more than this day."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Except tomorrow when tomorrow is here.

- Ghostwise

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