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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [3] Though burning has become an old habit for this heart, |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [17] Nothing but burning sobs and tears tonight. |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [21] The day Love was illumined, |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [36] Piousness and the path of love |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 1 (from Life of the Future World) |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World) |
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Adyashanti A Tendency to Shine |
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Akha When one settles into a state of desirelessness, |
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Alighieri, Dante All Being within this order, by the laws (from The Paradiso, Canto I) |
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Allama Prabhu If it rains fire |
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Ammons, A. R. Rogue Elephant |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah The one You kill, |
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Ashford, Eric A Flame in the Eye of Love |
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Ashford, Eric Speak Yourself Open Like the Sky |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Dullard Sage |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The moths and the flame |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Valley of the Quest |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Simurgh |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din God Speaks to Moses |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din God Speaks to David |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Vain Bird |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand |
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Basava Where they feed the fire |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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ben Yose, Yose In Praise of God (from Avoda) |
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Blake, William Reader! of books! of heaven (from Jerusalem) |
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Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend |
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Brabazon, Francis We have waited all night for you, and now the dawn is come. |
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Bulleh Shah I have been pierced by the arrow of love, what shall I do ? |
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Cherokee (Anonymous) Formula for Obtaining Life |
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Chinmoy, Sri Flames |
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Clare of Assisi Happy, indeed, is she whom it is given to share this sacred banquet, |
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Cloud of Unknowing Blessed With a Kiss |
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Cloud of Unknowing How Can I Deny You? |
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Crashaw, Richard The Flaming Heart or the Life of the Glorious S. Teresa |
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Crashaw, Richard To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus |
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Dasimayya, Devara Suppose you cut a tall bamboo |
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Efendi, Seyh Ibrahim The Sufi Way |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh Raga Asa |
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Francis of Assisi Prayer from 'A Letter to the Entire Order' |
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Galib, Seyh Were I your treasure, you would squander me, |
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Ghalib, Mirza The Candle Flame |
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Gibran, Kahlil Reason and Passion (from The Prophet) |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang A fiery chariot borne on nimble wings (from Faust) |
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Gorakhnath Gorakh Bani |
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Govindasvamin Holy sixth day |
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Granger, Ivan M. Cheshire Cat |
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Granger, Ivan M. Day and Night |
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Granger, Ivan M. Prometheus |
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Granger, Ivan M. Trinket |
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Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 3: 2 AM |
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Griffiths, Ann His left hand, in heat of noonday, |
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Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim |
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Gyatso, Chone Lama Lodro A Dance of Unwavering Devotion |
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Gyatso, Kelsang Little Tiger |
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Hadewijch Dew (from Love's Seven Names) |
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Hadewijch Love Has Seven Names |
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Hafiz A New World |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Love is the Funeral Pyre |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) That Lamp That Needs No Oil |
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Halevi, Judah O My Lord, Your dwelling places are lovely |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [253] Children I implore you |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Hawaiian (Anonymous) He kanaenae no Laka / A Prayer of Adulation to Laka |
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Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power |
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Herbert, George The Pearl. Matthew 13 |
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Hildegard of Bingen Columba aspexit / Sequence for Saint Maximin |
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Hildegard of Bingen O ignee Spiritus / Hymn to the Holy Spirit |
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Hildegard of Bingen O nobilissima viriditas / Responsory for Virgins |
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Hildegard of Bingen O spectabiles viri / Antiphon for Patriarchs and Prophets |
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Hirshfield, Jane The Task |
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley God's Grandeur |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin If what she says is true |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin While the sun's eye rules my sight, |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world; (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad The secret divine my ecstasy has taught (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin We Yield Our Hearts |
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Islam, Nazrul Syama wakes on the cremation grounds |
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Jacobsen, Rolf The Silence Afterwards |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) As air becomes the medium for light when the sun rises, (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) In losing all, the soul has risen (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jayadeva [3] When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva [6] My heart values his vulgar ways, (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon Full Consciousness |
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John of the Cross Dark Night |
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John of the Cross Love's Living Flame |
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John of the Cross On the Communion of the Three Persons (from Romance on the Gospel) |
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John of the Cross The Fountain |
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John of the Cross Without a Place and With a Place |
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Kabir I've burned my own house down, |
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Kabir My body is flooded |
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Kabir The Lord is in Me |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [7] Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring |
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Kuhi of Shiraz, Baba In the market, in the cloister--only God I saw. |
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Lawrence, D. H. Deeper Than Love |
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Lawrence, D. H. Glory |
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Lawrence, D. H. Pax |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Levertov, Denise Only Once |
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Levertov, Denise Scraps of moon |
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Levine, Stephen Half life |
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Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping, |
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Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
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Machado, Antonio Siesta |
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Mahadevi, Akka Like a silkworm weaving |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Song of the Poppadum |
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Masahide Barn's burnt down -- |
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Mathias, Michael The Tower of Silence |
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Mathias, Michael (6) Ramana Seeks out the Mountain of Arunachala (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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Mathias, Michael (10) The Tree of Kabbalah - The Kiss (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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McCombs, Chris The Friend Is Always There |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg A fish cannot drown in water, |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Wouldst thou know my meaning? |
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Mei, Yuan Climbing the Mountain |
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Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks |
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Merton, Thomas In Silence |
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Merton, Thomas O Sweet Irrational Worship |
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Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings |
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Mirabai O my friends, |
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Mirabai The Heat of Midnight Tears |
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Mistral, Gabriela The Rose |
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Muktabai Though he has no form |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin At love's most sumptuous feast was I with love made drunk - |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin Both worlds within my compass come, but this world cannot compass me. |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin I take the Merciful Onešs shape, the Merciful I am. |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence. What I saw |
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Neruda, Pablo Gautama Christ |
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Neruda, Pablo Poetry |
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Neruda, Pablo [17] I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, |
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Nevins, Shawn Words are cold this morning. |
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Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) Stand at the throne (from The Standing Of the Presence Chamber and the Letter) |
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Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) The Standing "My Time Has Come" |
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Novalis Over I journey |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone -- |
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O'Donohue, John May the light of your soul guide you. |
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Oliver, Colin Ploughing at Nightfall |
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Oliver, Mary Spring |
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Oliver, Mary The Journey |
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Oliver, Mary The Journey |
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Oliver, Mary The Ponds |
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Oliver, Mary This World |
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Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
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Parsell, Virginia Portrait |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) I carry a torch in one hand |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) O my Lord, if I worship you |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) O Death! Get away; what canst thou do? |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Of what use is my going to Kasi any more? |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Ravidas How to Escape? |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Deluge |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Late Autumn |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria We are the driving ones. |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (10) I carved a wind-harp (from Uttering Her Name) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Ah, what was there in that light-giving candle that it set fire to the heart, and snatched the heart away? |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting. |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Fasting |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin I regard not the outside and the words, |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Love is Here |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Suddenly, in the sky at dawn, a moon appeared, |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin You only need smell the wine |
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Sanai, Hakim Bloom Like a Rose |
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Sanai, Hakim Streaming |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud One Light |
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Shabistari, Mahmud Sun-Reflections (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Mirror (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Wine of Rapture (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shankara Endless is my Wealth |
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Shih Shu mountain sounds carry a chill wisdom |
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Snyder, Gary Riprap |
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Solovyov, Vladimir All in azure today |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Sophia in Egypt (from Three Meetings) |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Symeon the New Theologian By what boundless mercy, my Savior, |
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Symeon the New Theologian In the midst of that night, in my darkness, |
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Symeon the New Theologian What is this awesome mystery |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Accept me, my lord, accept me for this while. |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Your flute plays the exact notes of my pain. (from The Lover of God) |
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Takahashi, Shinkichi A Wood in Sound |
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Takahashi, Shinkichi Camel |
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Taliesin A Poem for the Wind |
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Therese of Lisieux The Atom of Jesus-Host |
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Therese of Lisieux My Song for Today |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tiruvalluvar Truthfulness |
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Traherne, Thomas The Rapture |
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Trungpa, Chogyam Purifying and Invoking the Four Directions |
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Valad, Sultan The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive |
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Vaughan, Henry Vain wits and eyes |
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Vidyapati All my inhibition left me in a flash, |
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Walters, Dorothy Scars of Rapture |
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Walters, Dorothy The Abundance of Brightness |
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Walters, Dorothy A Cloth of Delicate Gold |
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Whitman, Walt [4] Trippers and askers surround me, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [10] Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [20] Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude; (from Song of Myself) |
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Yannai The Celestial Fire |
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Yeats, William Butler Sailing to Byzantium |
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Yeats, William Butler The Everlasting Voices |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa OM |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Thy light transfigures all creation |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [15] Some may slander, some may abuse; (from The Shodoka) |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [63] However the burning iron ring revolves around my head, (from The Shodoka) |
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Yung Chia (Chueh, Hsuan) Let others slander me; (from The Song of Enlightenment) |
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Yung Chia (Chueh, Hsuan) Let others slander me; (from The Song of Enlightenment) |
