INSIDE ELVIS' COPY OF "THE TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA" BY B.O.K. IS FOUND THE FOLLOWING VOW IN ELVIS' HANDWRITING:
My Vow, I promise to try to live a pure life, to practice faith, to seek perfection, to meditate daily. To practice abstinence and free my body from lusts of the flesh to the best of my ability. Elvis Presley
A VERSE WRITTEN BY ELVIS TO A FRIEND: He tries to describe the loves he cannot become, failing the wildest dreams of the mind, and settling for visions of God. But remember him, do not forget, because in forgetting, he will loose even memory of life.
WRITTEN BY ELVIS IN ONE OF HIS BOOKS ENTITLED, "THE LIGHT TO SEE," BY J.F. DEVRIES: If I am but I, who am I? If I am a man, what man? I believe I am many men as one man in this existence. If so, then I am all men I have been and perhaps all I am ever to be. As one is to all. I am today all I ever was. The past is my present as it is my future. I have been before and will be again-who? Elvis Presley
EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY ELVIS TO WANDA JUNE HILL. IT WAS DATED AUGUST 3, 1977. SHE RECEIVED IT ON AUGUST THE 15TH, THE DAY BEFORE HIS DEATH: Dear Wanda my friend,
You remember the first time I talked with you. I can recall thinking how nice it was to talk to someone who sounded like I used to sound and that you were sweet and innocent and nervous. I thought then how much I was going to enjoy knowing you and your family. I felt this ugly thing called jealousy because of your child when I saw her. I wanted her for my own, just because she was so loving and I wanted that loving for myself. Listening to you talk about your family life and your husband made me want that kind of relationship too. I never met many married people in California that were happy in marriage until I met you and then some of your friends. I guess it is true about the people you run with influencing your life. Mine has had its bad influences all the way. But I wanted to write to you and tell you that I have enjoyed knowing you and your friends this past year and a half most of all. I have never regretted meeting any of them and I have not one time wished that I did not have you for a friend. I could and feel I will be able to trust and enjoy an open relationship with you and with many of the people that befriend you and your family. I think that is a blessing from heaven and I treasure it.
Remember when you came to the lot at M.G.M. in the spring of 1963 and I asked you to have lunch with me?.....I hope that you don't change as you grow older and more successful. I want to tell you that life is nothing without trust and love and good friends. It is nothing without family and loved ones. And you can not replace them once they are gone. I know. Believe me. Love them and take care of them and never regret the things required of you by them. For that is what life is about. Loving and caring.
Love, Elvis P.
P.S. If I have done anything to harm or hurt you over the past few years please forgive me for it. I know you have worried about me and spent a lot of time trying to help me, and it did. I would like you to remember me and to help others to do the same. But I don't have the right to ask for a thing. So I'll just hint real loudly, alright?
ELVIS WROTE A FRIEND IN 1974:
I guess I am born in the wrong time period as I am out of step with my peers and the expression of my emotions. They hold everything in and suffer and I let it all come to the surface and suffer. I think its hard both ways...to have openness is good I guess. Gooder, as Lisa would say, gooder and gooder. You're a better judge than I about these type things. You asked me if I remember you. I do. I remember that early morning when we stood on the balcony and watched that Vegas Sunrise and that air was crisp and you said you loved Wintertime best. I looked at you and your eyes were like the morning glories growing around the back of our old house in Tupelo and it made me cry, and you thought I was sick, but it was just the beauty of that time...and you. So I do, and I will never forget. Just remember me in return.
Love ya,
Elvis Presley
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