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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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"Death has a hundred hands
and walks by a thousand ways."

–T. S. Eliot

love letter

other stashes

regarding water
regarding love

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Of your bones, now buried white cloud,
this much remains forever:

streams cascading empty toward
human realms.

–Wang Wei

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Can you look at death without the image of death?

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We come at last to the
dark and enter in.

We are given bodies
newly made out of their absence
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We come to the space between
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(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

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Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

–Mary Oliver

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I cried when i was born, and I shall die laughing.

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For we are only the rind and the leaf.

The great death, that each of us
carries inside, is the fruit.

Everything enfolds it.

–Rainer Maria Rilke

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I am not I.

I am this one walking beside me
whom I do not see, whom
at times I manage to visit, and whom
at other times I forget;

who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives gently, when I hate,

who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing
when I die.

–Juan Ramón Jiménez

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"Though lovers be lost, love shall not;

And death shall have no dominion."

–Dylan Thomas

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They can be like a sun, words.

They can do for the heart
what light can
for a field.

– St. John of the Cross

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When the soul is naughted and
transformed . . . she is so full of
peace that though she press her
flesh, her nerves, her bones, no
other thing comes forth from
them than peace.

–Saint Catherine of Genoa

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