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Aikido in Rhyme Blog Tools Rate This Blog
Creation Date: 01-31-2011 06:17 PM
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  #7 New 09-28-2011 08:03 PM
I've been through highs I've been through lows,
I've been to the places where everyone goes;
Is Aikido life? Giving you painful techniques and throws,
Subtly teaching you with it's ikkyos and nikkyos?

When it seems all is lost and you feel it's all too much,
When peoples advice sounds to you double dutch;
Maybe all seems against you, hopeless and dark,
Remember there is one thing, you, a light, a spark.

And what is that spark? For it is not a quantity,
For you are not a thing my friend you are a quality;
When things look too much it appears quantity rules;
It's only belief in such make us blind and as fools.

For five and five or three and seven may indeed equal ten,
Until you get the eye of zen and then look again;
For then all is just one, more than that is a number,
And one is a quality which no quantity can asunder.

And quality my friends transcends both time and space,
One quality sword cut is worth a thousand misplaced;
You may have had a thousand flings but there's only one quality wife,
You may try a thousand things but there's one quality life.

So if I may be so bold and use someone else's phrase,
Quality gives you correct feeling, quantity leaves you in a daze;
So always remember no matter where or what you do,
Quality transcends all and that quality is you.

Peace.G.
Views: 2582 | Comments: 3


RSS Feed 3 Responses to "Quality."
#3 12-07-2011 03:39 PM
guest1234567 Says:
My readers liked it a lot, here it is in spanish
#2 09-30-2011 05:34 PM
Thanks Carina. Just looked up Ralph Waldo Emerson. An interesting man. G.
#1 09-29-2011 07:52 AM
guest1234567 Says:
Thank you Graham. It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. Ralph Waldo Emerson
 




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