Water is free from the birth
and death of a wave.
Thich Nhat Hahn
waiting to be born.
David Whyte, The House of Belonging
The soul, like the moon,
is now, and always new again.
And I have seen the ocean
continuously creating.
Since I scoured my mind
and my body, I too, Lalla,
am new, each moment new.
My teacher told me one thing,
live in the soul.
When that was so,
I began to go naked,
and dance.
Lalla, Kasmiri poet and mystic, 1320 – 1392
Original Kasmiri translated by Coleman Banks
But I always think that the best way
to know God
is to love many things
Vincent Van Gogh
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There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.
There must be a time of day when the man who has to speak falls very silent.
And his mind forms no more propositions, and he asks himself: Did they have a meaning?
There must be a time when the man of prayer goes to pray as if it were the first time in his life he had ever prayed;
when the man of resolutions puts his resolutions aside as if they had all been broken,
and he learns a different wisdom
Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
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