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I'm an easy going, intelligent guy. I love the unusual and new. Art, Theatre, Biking, camping, dancing. . . anything that is fun or adventurous. I am really outgoing, and friendly, though sometimes distracted. I love to draw and paint and I write music from time to time when I am inspired. I love fire as if it was part of my own soul, as you can see from one of my photos. I snowboard and mountain bike when I can and also love swimming and surfing.
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
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