The Late Life Adventure Of Mr. Miggs.

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The surrendering of the kingdom.

Handle a large kingdom with as gentle a touch
as if you were cooking a small fish. -Lao Tzu

This nakedness: there is a realness to it.

The mystery is solved. At last.

Crooked nights when it was long in our thoughts.

Quiet days when the mind was empty

and you think of the body of the other.

What to touch, what to taste.

A sacred thing, the act of it.

And now the kingdom is offered to you,

and you, in turn, offer up a kingdom as well.

The dye is cast. the rose is tossed.

The mind is empty and the kingdoms are surrendered.

Nakedness. Nothingness. Every beginning is new.

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Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

Wayne Dyer

I met Dr. Dyer at a radio station where I worked, K108 in Sacramento, now long gone. He was there to be interviewed by our newsperson, Ken Hunt, for his Sunday public affairs program. 1990, 1991, somewhere in there. I was a DJ, on the air at that moment. I had read a couple of his books and was pleased to meet him, even if it was only a handshake and a hello in the hallway while a song was playing.

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