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Primary Wonder - Denise Levertov

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  Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy. memory. everything, rather than void: and that, O Lord, Creator, Hallowed One, You still, hour by hour sustain it.
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Full of Trust - Mitta

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 Full of trust you left home, and soon learned to walk the Path- making yourself a friend to everyone and making everyone a friend. When the whole world is your friend, fear will find no place to call home. And when you make the mind a friend, you'll know what trust really means. Listen. I have followed this Path of friendship to its end. And I can say with absolute certainty- it will lead you home.
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Of Being - Denise Levertov

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 I know this happiness is provisional: the looming presences- great suffering, great fear- withdraw only into peripheral vision: but ineluctable this shimmering of wind in the blue leaves: this flood of stillness widening the lake of sky: this need to dance, this need to kneel: this mystery
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Spring at Santa Sabina - Ruah Bull

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 On my first retreat I brought a suitcase full   of books on silence And sat entranced by pages and pages on mindfulness, mysticism. ,  I didn't hear the fountain glisten or smell unfolding purple or notice cool bands of moving shadow. If  every creature is a Word of God This one was loud luminous, insistent. I don't know what she said but her feet were so small, her wings diaphanous with speed. The garden around me  within me  awakens.
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Shining Forth - Meister Eckhart

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 In times of doubt I forget That You are not a God Of thoughts, to be found In concepts or theories But are the source of  My life and the radiance That shines forth in all That is, and then I remember: Mine is the work of learning To see You as the radiance That shines forth in all that is,  Even in the dark. Even in me.
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Blessing - Blackrock Prayer Book

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 The world is too dangerous and too beautiful for anything but love. May your eyes be so blessed that you see God in everyone. Your ears, so you hear the cry of the poor. May your hands be so blessed that everything you touch is a sacrament. Your lips, so you speak nothing but the truth with love. May your feet be so blessed you run to those who need you. And may your heart be so opened, so set on fire, that your love, your love, changes everything. Amen
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The Real Work - Wendell Berry

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 It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded spring is the one that sings.
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