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How to End Suffering He used to live away from himself. He hid in books, television, and everything else this modern society has ever dreamt of. Always in company of others, because he was afraid of living with himself. One day he got all his courage and opened his eyes, and it was not as painful as he thought it would be. He did not care for books or television anymore, he knew that he himself was enough. What he saw when he opened his eyes was something he never thought was possible. He saw suffering, more than he could imagine, but he also saw that those who suffered were no different than him, and that they, too, could end their own suffering if they wanted.How to End Suffering by ~tayuyaflutegirl92
Dreams Sunlight shines in through an open windowDreams by ~tayuyaflutegirl92
a little girl in a white tule dress, fairy wand in hand
Dreams
She knows, yet
cares not
for that which lies beyond the window; what they call
the world
She saw it once, and never more
Now all she wants is to forget.
And dream
She twirls around, wishing she were an angel
or a fairy
or anything magical so she did not have
to face the pain,
and bear the loneliness.
So she could dream,
and thus escape
the fate she knows awaits her,
whose full effect she has not felt,
and yet it bites at her
like a wolf
That loneliness lurking in the depths of her soul.
And she; tule dress, and fairy
The Cartographer's Daughter Every night, he would fold her into his arms before she slept. Creases grew into her, turning brown with wear, and she loved them. When she woke up in the night, dreaming of darkness, he would take her to his desk and draw for her a map of her face, turning it into another world. Tracing the contours of her smile, he would scrawl a warning, "Here be monsters", whispering to her that she was a dragon when angry.The Cartographer's Daughter by *ClioStorm
As she grew older, she populated his maps with creatures and peoples from the books she read, or her own creations. He taught her to draw, and to write with an old inkpen, in a cursive script her teacher could make neither head nor
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Run strong, run fast, and sing to the night with all your heart and soul! ~Yo-chan.
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A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.