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Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
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Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.
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When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.
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Like the shadow I am and I am not.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
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Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute
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Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.
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I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.
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Friend, we're traveling together. Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken. I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out a grain that's way too big.
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You are the drop, and the ocean you are kindness, you are anger, you are sweetness, you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.
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Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
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True beauty is a ray. That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.
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We are the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together.
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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
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