We cannot transform negative situations into positive ones if we see them as negative and react to them with negative emotions. As long as we hold onto negative perceptions, viewing our circumstances through dark shades, the whole world will appear negative, and all our efforts will be one never-ending struggle.

Enlightened Journey
Buddhist Practice as Daily Life
Tulku Thondup

Wednesday
October 1, 1998
St Kilda East

high & dry

two jumps in a week i bet you think that's pretty clever don't you
boy.
flying on your
motorcycle.
watching all the ground beneath you
drop
you'd kill yourself for recognition.
kill yourself to
never
ever
stop
you broke another mirror. you're turning into something you are not.

don't leave me high
don't leave me dry
don't leave me high
don't leave me dry

drying up in conversation
you will be the one who cannot talk.
all your insides fall to pieces.
you just sit there
wishing
you
could
still
make
love.
they're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world
� � � � � � all sussed out.
they're the ones who'll spit at you.
you will be the one
screaming
out.

don't leave me high
don't leave me dry
don't leave me high
don't leave me dry

it's the best thing that you ever had.
the best thing that you ever ever had
it's the best thing that you ever had
the best thing you had is gone away

don't leave me high
don't leave me dry
don't leave me high
don't leave me dry

� 1995 Radiohead/EMI records

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