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THERE IS NO PATH TO PEACE; PEACE IS THE PATH
Everybody makes his unique path differently. One can’t be sure they’re proceeding along the heartfelt path of wisdom
and enlightenment without walking on it. Choose your particular path with mindful heart, guiding what you’ve got
to have and must do in order to achieve self-awareness of who, what, where and why you actually are. Yearning
for the impossible and following your gut instinct, while seizing the opportunity, become a trailblazer,
conquering fears scaling the uphill path to human progress.
Over every mountain, there is an unexplored, yet to be determined purposeful path, both up and down;
inside and outside; a way forward and back. Never follow anybody else’s path; it simply does not work
the same way twice, rolling up behind you as you pass, forcing the next person to find their own predestined
way. Not knowing where I’m going inspires me to keep putting one foot in front of the other, gaze focused
on moving toward a higher place.
While climbing steep zigzag stretches, occasionally stop to rest, to catch your breath and to enjoy the view.
Dare to venture beyond uncharted territory traversing new directions without maps, forging ahead by just going
out there and doing it. Easy paths usually end up nowhere. Difficult paths challenge us to overcome self-imposed
obstacles, mental ruts, prickly thorns and rainbow puddles. When you stumble, pick yourself up, finally reaching
the top, keep going.
Charles Frederickson is a Swedish/American/Thai impassioned observer, daring experimentalist and progressive visionary who has
wandered intrepidly through 206 countries, an original sketch and poem for each presented on http://www.imagesof.8k.com. A member of World Poets
Society, based in Greece, his unique poetic style has been featured in: Ascent Aspirations, Auckland Poetry, Blind Man’s Rainbow, Both Sides Now,
Caveat Lector, Contemporary American Voices, Cordite Poetry Review, Dance to Death, Decanto, ESC!, Feelings of the Heart, Flutter Magazine,
Greatworks, Green Dove, Indite Circle, International Poet, Listen & Be Heard, Living Poets, Madpoetry, Melange, Newtopia, New Verse News, Peace
Not War Japan, Planet Authority, Poetics, Poetry Canada, Poetry of Scotland, Poetry Stop, Poets for Peace, Poetry Superhighway, Pyramid, Sz, T-Zero,
Ygdrasil, Ya’Sou! and Zafusy.
Email: Charles Frederickson
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