Tag: Poetry
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Let nothing trouble you
Let nothing trouble you. Let nothing scare you. All is fleeting. God alone is unchanging. Patience Everything obtains. Who possesses God Nothing wants. God alone suffices. From The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila Volume Three translated by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriquez. Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) was a Spanish Carmelite nun, mystic,…
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Only Breath
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, notcomposed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this…
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Didn’t I Tell You
Didn’t I tell youDo not leave me for I am your only Friend,I am the spring of life.Even if you leave in anger for thousands of yearsYou will come back to me for I am your goal and your end. Didn’t I tell younot to be seduced by this colourful worldfor I am the Ultimate…
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