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Compassion - Miller Williams

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 Have compassion for everyone you meet,  even if they don't want it, What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

When It's Time - Ruah Bull

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 to lean into that opening door, my dear companion, may I release you  back into precious earth with care, gratitude, respect You have been partner, teacher, trickster, angel on this journey into unimaginable Being Go in peace, love,  into the deep roots and underground waters. I bless you, praise you, thank you

Late Prayer - Jane Hirshfield

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 Tenderness does not choose its own uses. It goes out to everything equally, circling rabbit and hawk. Look: in the iron bucket a single nail, a single ruby- all the heavens and hells. They rattle in the heart and make one sound.