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I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’

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Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
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Heart Life Sun World Yourself
I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.
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God Mess Mindset Myself
The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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Death Earth Herself Kiss Sun
Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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Creation God Men relief Sadness Wisdom
I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.
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Different God Kind Love Oneself People Religious Talk
The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this… and the Ocean does that.
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Beautiful Excitement Jewel Love Myself Ocean Relationship Yourself
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
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The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine…that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
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Book Care Forget Freedom Friendship Time Wine World
We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.
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Choice Freedom Joy Prison Spiritual Surrender
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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Friendship Hate Heart Yourself
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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Favor Greatness Inspirational Love
The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
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Beautiful Build Difference Man Night Prison Saint Spiritual Wisdom
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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Ability Act Built Foundation Greatness Man Men
A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.
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Beautiful Light Poet Religious Yourself
Light will someday split you open.
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Believe Hope Inspirational Light One Liner Spiritual Success Yourself
There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.
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Mad Man Run Work Yourself
There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
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Accident Army Life Loose Run
Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
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Eyes God Grief Heart Human Quick Season Spiritual Surrender Voice Wisdom
Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
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Earth Eyes See Sun Warm Yourself
Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.
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Growth Heart One Liner Plant Seed Yourself
Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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Destiny Fate One Liner
Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.
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Encouragement Environment Gratitude Life Pure
Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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Laughter One Liner Pure Self Love Sound
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.
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Grace Impossible Religious Spiritual Time Wisdom Yourself
Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
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Choice Door Myself Satisfaction
The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
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Angel Man Purity Soul Spiritual Truth Wisdom Woman
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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Greatness Life Poet Religious Spiritual Wisdom

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’

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