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christopher bates

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    • terrifying truth
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    • the treasonous free
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    • deeply productive
    • paint things blue
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    • when the light calls
    • where the sea runs backwards
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    • alexandre dumas
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    • louis l’amour
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Author: batesthink

July 31, 2016February 9, 2023

blind virus

​a virus cannot see that it is a virus its entire context is virus so it sees the healthy world as a place that must be changed made right to…

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July 26, 2016February 9, 2023

entries

to allow pain is the greatest courage to feel hopes crushed is the door to forgiveness to fail as a hero is to become fully human to find the limits…

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July 25, 2016February 9, 2023

saint francis de sales

Have patience with all things, but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You’re a perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you…

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July 24, 2016February 9, 2023

recognizing your deepest work

​You will know you are approaching your deepest work, when it is not you that is working on the work at all, but you find in reality that the work…

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July 21, 2016February 9, 2023

after inside out

Remember in the film Inside Out, when Sadness changes memories from happy (yellow) to sad (blue)? It has always disturbed me that the change was portrayed as irreversible… happy memories…

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July 10, 2016February 9, 2023

sacred burning

as my art grew so grew my heart and as my art spoke it asked a degree of solitude which i would not afford and art being life simply waited…

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July 9, 2016February 9, 2023

where the sea runs backwards

i have seen the surge of the sea run backwards i have seen the broad delta of my consciousness its sediment rinsed clean by those waves i have seen waves…

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July 9, 2016February 9, 2023

strategic rest

If all we ever do is work towards letting go, we simply come to a standstill, the cessation of movement. Then when we resume, we’re not as tired, but we…

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July 9, 2016February 9, 2023

when the light calls

do the birds while it is still dark call forth the morning sun or does the sun in its nascent gloom awaken the birds to sing describe for me your…

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July 9, 2016February 9, 2023

silence

do not fear silence its echoing distance you will find your self there and your self must be found if it is to emerge healed

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  • prose
    • brave blind
    • the wild
    • dear solitude
    • on the knife’s edge
    • a cup of tea with hope
    • love without fear
    • different
    • dry dock
    • again
    • reluctant destruction
    • did you know
    • empty fear
    • eclipse
    • blind virus
    • elements
    • entries
    • first love
    • how to entertain sadness
    • guidance
    • windows
    • i caught the moon
    • let the rains come
    • living trust
    • if you know
    • love in my way
    • mother of disappointment daughter of ideals
    • quiet healer
    • recognizing your deepest work
    • sacred burning
    • self love
    • sifting
    • silence
    • speak to us
    • strategic rest
    • stronger still
    • terrifying truth
    • the wound on my finger
    • the kindness of others
    • the treasonous free
    • tomorrow yesterday today
    • deeply productive
    • paint things blue
    • love without fear
    • when the light calls
    • where the sea runs backwards
    • why i do not trust happiness
    • be rare
    • after inside out
    • to my children
    • dear kiffie
  • center
    • love first and more
    • unprecedented bravery
  • quotes
    • pleasure
    • do not delay happiness
    • glass half
    • wisdom from the rodeo
    • the kindness of others
  • from others
    • tennessee williams
    • victor hugo
    • clint eastwood
    • jack gilbert
    • ernest hemingway
    • ralph waldo emerson
    • oscar wilde
    • saint francis de sales
    • alexandre dumas
    • paulo coelho
    • louis l’amour
  • about

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 


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