Love

Bullet

Blessing of silver, wrapped in fire End my life, burn my desire There is no use in living again When the last pursuit ended in vain Should I put you through my head As I lay on my deathbed Or shall I send you through my heart Already dead and torn apart I thought this …

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Be Positive, not Stupid!

Ever since The Secret (by Rhonda Byrne) was released a few years ago, we started seeing the “be positive” affirmation everywhere. Unfortunately, many people either stopped there and went back to being more negative than before while others took it to the extreme and gambled away their life savings. As valuable as it is to …

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Vampire

I lurk in the dark waiting for you As you pass by your light shines through I crave your scent and your radiance I pray you grace me with your appearance Yet how can I pray and to whom? I am deathless and escaped doom I used to long for immortality When I got it, …

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The Path to Happiness

Throughout the ages, people from all cultures and spiritual backgrounds have debated one thing above all others: what is the path to true happiness? While some found it through meditation, others found it through self-sacrifice; however, the debate rages on about which path is the one true path. Having experimented with various forms of spirituality …

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A True Leader

“A true leader should have the power to begin, the eloquence to communicate, the patience to execute and the wisdom to evaluate. Without one, he remains a slave to he who possesses it.” In order for a person to be a leader, he must have good command of the 4 elements in his personality. These …

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Hymn to Nature

Glorious nature, surrounding all From the valley to the waterfall In you, everything starts And in the end, to you, departs The tree, the worm and the bird All make sense, yet are absurd Who would conceive a bird to fly? Who would imagine a fox so sly? Look at the sun in all its …

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People and Hardships

the same sun which softens chocolate hardens clay

There are two kinds of people… How many times have you heard that one before? No really! A person’s truth shines only after he’s been through hardships. One of the most important gods in the Hindu religion is Lord Shiva who is both the god of wisdom and the god of destruction. And when we …

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All Over

I’ve been through countless lives I’ve traveled endless places I’ve been stabbed by countless knives And flew through endless spaces I’ve lived as a poor beggar And died as a wealthy king I’ve had rooms full of sugar And sirens which could sing I’ve had many daughters and sons And raised many dogs and cats …

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The Gift of Death

It is the dreadful enemy Of many people everywhere To others it’s a plea Through which they escape despair Death is a part of life Surrounded by pain and strife But in fact is the salvation From the clutch of desperation It is change that we truly fear To lose the life we hold so …

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Raising Tough Kids

We need to teach our kids to be tough: the system may be synthesized to protect them from bullies, but who will protect them against a system gone wrong?

Schools nowadays are full of anti-bullying campaigns and trying to teach kids to be nice to one another. While this may work sometimes, it fails miserably most of the time. But why does it fail? To answer this question, we should first try to understand the bully. In general, a bully is usually a person …

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Charbel M. Tadros

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