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Thank you Riantee --- you are truly a torch bearer.<br>
Dani<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/23/25 11:47 AM, Riantee Rand via
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<div><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Your
Presence in Death</span></div>
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<p
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face="Times New Roman, serif">Thank you my love for the gift
of your presence</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">even in death, because of
death.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">It is because of it that the
journey you are on </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">is inscribed on my body with
the ink of forgiveness;</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">it is because of it that
having nothing left to lose,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">I have no preference, </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">although I care, I care a lot,
equally, for everything;</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">it’s because of it that I do
not mind being swept in the current </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">with no attachment </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">for it is the current of all
opportunities,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">a place of opening, receiving,
investigating with curiosity, </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">a neutral where the light of
my divinity is constantly unfolding.</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">You offer me the relief of not
having another task,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><a
name="PageNumWizard_FOOTER_Default Page Style4 Copy 4 Copy 1 Copy 1"
moz-do-not-send="true"></a><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">the power to know that the way
I see manifests my world,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">the power to be me, whole, </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">to become the axis that joins
what’s above and what’s below.</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Don’t search for meaning, you
tell me,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">listen, respond and let
meaning be revealed.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">In the world I often visit
lately </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">words don’t stand for
something else, </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">they contain their own
irrational meaning and significance.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Don’t ask me to be reasonable,
the gods don’t have our logic,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">their smile is ambiguous, it
contains the deep sadness</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">that underlines everything we
experienced since our earthly birth.</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">Night is our home, you
whisper,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">like the sun we return to it
every evening </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">to rise again in the morning, </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">it’s a place where all
opposites meet, where the paradox reigns.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">And for this we have to do
nothing.</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">No more running from yourself,
enter the darkness with no fear,</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">remember, opening to all of
life including death is pleasure </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">so, die before you die.</font></p>
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<p
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face="Times New Roman, serif">When we have a taste of
eternity</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">we long to return to that
unlimited Self</font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">for it is our true state of
being.</font></p>
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<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">You can do it in space and
time, </font></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif">at your own time!</font></p>
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