[from another site]

"Small fish swim in schools; the Great White shark swims alone"
~~carefulcarpenter

What's to really fear but never knowing one's true self? One must go to the depths of fear, to risk the loss of all material and social wealth, to discover the true wealth of spirit. There are NO leaders to this place.

"To make it to the top, one loses one's identity and integrity"
~~M. Scott Peck


"Life is a sad and miserable state of affairs for the materialist who can never afford to own their own new red bandwagon; and for the spiritualist who has misplaced the keys to the Porsche"
~~carefulcarpenter


"I could have been a contender" [from "Streetcar Named Desire"]

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"Tell me what you see; and I'll know where you are"
~~cc

I gave love; you gave me a thistle;
We shared tenderness; then you ran away;
I planted a rose; and you blossomed;
I had fresh hopes; tho' winter froze them solid

Who the hell is careful carpenter? That guy who used to post here??!?!?!? Sorry, off topic I know, but the identity of this person must be revealed!

the fear of losing what??? I'm afraid of losing material things, but I'm not afraid of dying because that's when my true self will be revealed.

Sophia and various other screennames - they're quoting themselves.

And this is as good as any for an example of how much they actually know what they're talking about -
This is from On the Waterfront.

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We are sorry, the mind you have reached is not a working mind.
Please hang up and die again.
Please hang up,
And die again.

Beat me to it. lolz

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Everything good, I deem too good to be true
Everything else is just a bore
Everything I have to look forward to
Has a pretty painful and very imposing before