There will come a day, my friend, when none of this matters
The darkness, the struggles, the pleasures and the smiles
All will be washed away
Like tears falling into the ocean of time
Our self-image, our possessions, our pride and our pain
There will come a day when nothing of you will remain
You might find it soothing, or you might find it sad
The idea of losing everything that you once had
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Oh, my friend, I have lost it all
And I have lost myself
It was the darkest night that I have ever felt
But it is in darkness where you will find the light
It is through suffering you will get it right
The pulverisation of yourself
The death of your mind gives birth to your heart
It's all necessary for a new start
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I sometimes lay down and gaze up towards a clear night sky
It helps me regain perspective
What I want to happen
What I don't want to happen
How self-absorbed I have been to consider it important
The future, the past
The endless amount of time spent on worry or regret
What a waste of the gift that is life
Whenever you watch the stars
Can you feel yourself overflow with wonder?
The mysteries of life are all around you, my friend
But your mind is like a cage
You will not experience what it can not grasp
The smaller the room, the smaller the experience you must grow it
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I'm writing you this letter, for life is uncertain
And as you will come to understand - everything is temporary
Everything ends and everything evolves
It is all constantly changing
Every cell of your body is changing
All the time
So let your mind change too
If you're not happy with who you are
Then you are not who you really are
These are the things I want you to think of
Whenever I cross your mind
Know that you are a soul living the human experience
Trust your intuition and only your intuition
With practice, it becomes a compass to guide you through life
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If you feel anxious, it means that you're doing something wrong
Silence your mind and feel
Observe your thoughts and change what you can
You know I had to change a lot
Everything in my life was wrong, and man
Did I suffer for it?
Eventually I experienced that it is not
The incidents or our emotions
That creates our suffering
It's our reactions towards them that does
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Keep that in your mind, my friend, as I tell you
A cycle is reaching its end
All shall pass
Happiness and suffering
Time is relentless towards all
Yet, we are eternal, beyond the world that we know
One day we will both return to the earth what we have from her taken
When our bones finally rest below the forest soil
And our souls again wander in the midnight sky
My dear friend
I hope my words can become a shoulder for you to cry on
And when it's time
We will meet again
Beyond the belt of Orion