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"The Way it is" by William Stafford
There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. you have...

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Apr 9, 20151 min read


"You suppose you are the trouble..." by Jelaludin Rumi
You suppose you are the trouble but you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door but you are the key that opens it It's...

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Mar 31, 20151 min read


"To See a World..." by William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. This is...

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Mar 29, 20154 min read


"A prayer in Spring" by Robert Frost
OH, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the...

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Mar 24, 20151 min read


"A Community of the Spirit" by Jelaluddin Rumi
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your...

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Mar 19, 20151 min read


"Lingering in Happiness" by Mary Oliver
After rain after many days without rain, it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees, and the dampness there, married now to...

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Mar 16, 20151 min read


"Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", by Robert Frost
This is the poem I have been reading for many years on the Winter Solstice. I learned it by heart when I was a child, and I still love...

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Mar 9, 20152 min read


"I Thank You God", by E.E. Cummings
i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything...

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Mar 9, 20151 min read


"Tending Two Shops" by Jelaluddin Rumi
Don’t run around this world looking for a hole to hide in. There are wild beasts in every cave! If you live with mice, the cat claws will...

susanalabordeblaj
Mar 7, 20151 min read


"I Shall Not Live In Vain" by Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one...

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Mar 7, 20151 min read


"When I Am Among the Trees" by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such...

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Mar 7, 20151 min read


"Why I am Happy" by William Stafford
Now has come, an easy time. I let it roll. There is a lake somewhere so blue and far nobody owns it. A wind comes by and a willow listens...

susanalabordeblaj
Mar 7, 20151 min read


"Are you looking for me?"... by Kabir
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine...

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Mar 7, 20151 min read


"The Guest House" by Jelaluddin Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an...

susanalabordeblaj
Mar 7, 20151 min read


"The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,...

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Mar 7, 20151 min read


"The Journey" by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice - though the whole...

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Mar 7, 20151 min read
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