Into the Abyss

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abyss anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite

into the abyss is a collection of artwork and writing that served as creative inspriation this past year i will always find chaos before creation



the guy changed the world and no one could even get his name straight. The guy was a genuine underdog.



nothing in this world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Leave the house before you find something woth stay for



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everything i a p r o c e s s and how you’re feeling is completely valid.

ignore the

people who tell y o u t o “suck it up” because you can take as much time as you need. this is a process. people will change and so will you. let them. let yourself. this is a p r o c ess.

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lif

is a cycle. let this happen.




It's a living book, this life; it folds out in a million settings, cast with a billion beautiful characters, and it is almost over for you. It doesn't matter how old you are; it is coming to a close quickly, and soon the credits will roll and all your friends will fold out of your funeral and drive back to their homes in cold and still and silence. And they will make a fire and . and

feel

a

kind

of

sickness

at

the

idea

you

never

again

will

be.

pour some wine and think about how you once were . .

So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. You unt, not by the narrative, that the Author is wrapping will know by the page co things up. You begin to mourn its ending, and want to pa ce yourself slowly toward its closure, knowing the last lines will speak of something beautiful, of the end of something long and earned, and you hope the thing closes out like last breaths, like whispers about how much and who the characters have come to love, and how aun

.

i involved some leaving

o

t

that your story will have

thentic the sentiments feel when they have earned a hundred pages of qualifica-

And so my prayer is and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man,

about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one It

would

be

a

crime

not

to

venture

out,

wouldn't

it?�

story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing



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