Just something to get you through the day...

07/15/05 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Sometimes I use certain afirmations to get me through the day. Here are two I particularly like:

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The Bene Gesserit Littainy against Fear

__I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain. __

And part of a poem by Sam Walter Foss called “The Coming American”:

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__Bring me men to match my mountains;

   Bring me men to match my plains, –

Men with empires in their purpose,

   And new eras in their brains.

Bring me men to match my praries,

   Men to match my inland seas,

Men whose thought shall pave a highway

   Up to ampler destinies;

Pioneers to clear Thought's marshlands,

   And to cleanse old Error's fen;

Bring me men to match my mountains —

   Bring me men!

Bring me men to match my forests,

   Strong to fight the storm and blast,

Branching toward the skyey future,

   Rooted in the fertile past.

Bring me men to match my valleys,

   Tolerant of sun and snow,

Men within whose fruitful purpose

   Time's consummate blooms shall grow.

Men to tame the tigerish instincts

   Of the lair and cave and den,

Cleans the dragon slime of Nature –

   Bring me men!

Bring me men to match my rivers,

   Continent cleavers, flowing free,

Drawn by the eternal madness

   To be mingled with the sea;

Men of oceanic impulse,

   Men whose moral currents sweep

Toward the wide-enfolding ocean

   Of an undiscovered deep;

Men who feel the strong pulsation

   Of the Central Sea, and then

Time their currents to its earth throb –

   Bring me men!__