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“I am mist, I am mist that cloaks things but never unties them. I am mist unchanged into rain water.I am mist and mist is my loneliness and my being alone, and in this, is my hunger and my thirst.My misfortune, however, is that this mist is my reality, and that it longs to meet with another mist in the sky, longs to hear the words: "You are not alone, there are two of us, I know who you are." Tell me, Tell me , my friends, is there anyone in this world who would be able or willing to say to me I am another mist, o mist, so let us cloack the mountains and the valleys, let us wander among and over the trees, let us cover the high rocks, let us together penetrate the heart and the pores of all creation and let us roam through those faraway places, impregnable and undiscovered.”

“Do not love half lovers Do not entertain half friends Do not indulge in works of the half talented Do not live half a life and do not die a half death If you choose silence, then be silent When you speak, do so until you are finished Do not silence yourself to say something And do not speak to be silent If you accept, then express it bluntly Do not mask it If you refuse then be clear about it for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance Do not accept half a solution Do not believe half truths Do not dream half a dream Do not fantasize about half hopes Half a drink will not quench your thirst Half a meal will not satiate your hunger Half the way will get you no where Half an idea will bear you no results Your other half is not the one you love It is you in another time yet in the same space It is you when you are not Half a life is a life you didn't live, A word you have not said A smile you postponed A love you have not had A friendship you did not know To reach and not arrive Work and not work Attend only to be absent What makes you a stranger to them closest to you and they strangers to you The half is a mere moment of inability but you are able for you are not half a being You are a whole that exists to live a life not half a life”