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What Sustains - Mark Nepo

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 The more I am hollowed by the fire, the more my ribs spread like the tree of life. The more I am washed by the tears of others, the more my heart rounds like an ocean shell. The more stories I tell of how one picks up another, the more my hands open like scoops for grain. To be what others drink, to be what others stand on, to reach what they love- we should be so lucky to be worn to this,

My Religion - Sofo Archon

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  I have a religion; It's called Love. I have a church; It's called Earth. I have a scripture; It's called Heart. I have a prayer; it's called Compassion.

I Do Dimly Perceive - Mahatma Gandhi

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     I d o dimly perceive that whilst everything  around me is ever changing, ever dying,  there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates...for I can see that in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness, light persists.

Rubai One - Bruce Moody

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 Birds mistook St. Francis for a tree. May I be so free of nervous haste, ambition and regret so in the exterpation of thought that innocence and improvisation may tell the dawn each day afresh that fresh is what it is.

After the Storm - Ruah Bull

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Silent, still A 'holy hush' following  The fierce fist of winter Quiet only deepened By the bright flicker of small birds I clear off  the buried bath Scatter seed on the porch And watch the winter sun Turn white ground Into a field of bright blinding crystal stars My centering prayer This after the storm morning- Tea, blanket, Simple gaze Wordless praise.

Psalm 54 excerpt - TRANS. Nan Merrill

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 Awaken me, O Mighty One, in your holy mercy, that I might be free of fear... With boundless confidence, I abandon myself to You... For You deliver me from illusion, and through Love, my heart open to Wisdom.

February - Ruah Bull

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 Like that moment before time when silence falls pregnant with sound when stillness dreams of movement and brain and tongue  seek the first creating word a flicker/ snowdrops an encouragement of light It is right to hope and wise to trust for in every once again beginning the promised pronouncement  It is good