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🗓️ 9 June 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. |
0:07.9 | It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. |
0:14.4 | It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, |
0:19.9 | and it lies between the pit of man's fears |
0:22.6 | and the summit of his knowledge. |
0:25.6 | This is the dimension of imagination. |
0:27.6 | It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. |
0:31.6 | The Twilight Zone. The I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where, for so swiftly it flew, |
1:05.8 | the sight could not follow it in its flight. |
1:09.5 | I breathed a song into the air. It fell to earth, |
1:13.2 | I knew not where, for who has sight so keen and strong that it can follow the flight of a song? |
1:21.1 | Long, long afterward, in an oak, I found the arrow still unbroken,, and the song from beginning to end, I found again |
1:31.0 | in the heart of a friend. That's a poem called The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth |
1:38.6 | Longfellow, and it's a nice short little poem. If you look out there, it's interpreted in a couple of |
1:45.6 | different ways by different people, but it seems to be generally thought to give the reader |
1:52.3 | pause for thought about their actions towards other people. You know, what do we put out there? |
2:00.3 | Sharp, unkind words can be quickly spoken, but for the person |
2:05.1 | who's on the other end of those words, the effect can, as the poem says, lasts for a long, |
2:10.8 | long time. Whereas putting out kind words, words of encouragement or comfort, again, they can be quickly |
2:19.7 | said and you might not even think about saying them, but those words too can last for a long, |
2:25.2 | long time and enrich someone's being in ways that you might never know. |
2:30.7 | That sharp, unkind word could catch someone at a particularly vulnerable moment and perhaps |
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