Tamil. " I stepped into the water without knowing its depth."

"A classified collection of Tamil proverbs"

THE GATHERING LIGHT

ROBERT ADAMSON

Time whistles around us, an invisible
flood tide that I let go
while I take in what I have done.
It wasn’t a fight, I was drawn to this moment.
The physical world drains away
into a golden calm.

foto – hall stand with jug and bowl from kerrie nov 09

ty Australia – Poetry International Web

Filed under: CAUTION, FIGHTING, RELAPSE PREVENTION, STEP 12, STEP 4, SURRENDER, TIME

Courage loves fighting ‘gainst terrible odds.

"Wisdom for the wise : a book of proverbs"

The Ferrets Are Fighting

The ferrets are fighting; the fur’s being flung.
As scathing and biting as a mother-in-law’s tongue.

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foto – bilambil sports club 2008.

Filed under: ACTION, COURAGE, FAMILY, FIGHTING

The wounded gladiator forswears fighting, and then forgets his former wound and grasps his weapons again.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Buddha. 

 

Scrubby Pete Hurcombe and Izzy Foreal at Stoker’s Siding. 2008.

Filed under: EXPERIENCE, FAILURE AND MISTAKES, FIGHTING, MEN, STEP 8

Better a good retreat than stay to suffer.

 

Friends are good on the day of battle.

 

Today drunk, to-morrow on water.

Manx.

“A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases, based on Macintosh’s collection“

Filed under: FIGHTING , MANX, PROVERBS