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The Fire Rises in Me - Symeon the New Theologian

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The fire rises in me,           and lights up my heart. Like the sun! Like the golden disk! Opening, expanding, radiant --           Yes!           -- a flame! I say again:           I don’t know           what to say! I’d fall silent -- If only I could -- but this marvel           makes my heart leap, it leaves me open mouthed           like a fool, urging me           to summon words           from my silence.    
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Creation - Ruah Bull

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 No thingness spoke- a Word All we can name Star  Beetle  Boy Silence the womb of all speech  all creation
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I Part Out- Wendell Berry

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I part out the thrusting branches and come in beneath  the blessed and blessing trees. Though I am silent there is singing around me. Though I am heavy, there is flight around me.
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Best of Any Song - Wendell Berry

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  Best of any song is bird song in the quiet, but first you have the quiet.
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Life Is Garden - Bokonon

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 Life is a garden, not a road We enter and exit through the same gate Wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice
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Gift - R.S. Thomas

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 Some ask the world and are diminished  in the receiving of it. You gave me only this small pool that the more I drink  from, the more overflows me with sourceless light.
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Whatever It Is - Saigyo

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 Whatever it is, I cannot understand it, although gratitude stubbornly overcomes me until I am redicred to tears.
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