Words are thoughts breathed through you, exhaled from the lips of the Creator. Your resonance paints Life’s landscape, but the form will shift and fold for no thing is permanent, no path is without forks. We are wind and water, we are ash and vapour. These are the only truths: Beauty and Impermanence. But these are enough to reveal my path and to move ever forward. Guide me from the Four Pillars, through the pastures of my birth, infused with youthful spirit, a measured wisdom and the fires of purpose. For the dream of life can deceive you. It can appear as a hard glittering gem, firm and unyielding, seducing your senses, beckoning to a life of riches and power over men. Away from the Four: Water, Air, Earth and Fire.
— A Shinto Prayer
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