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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said In my heart Thou dwellest--else with blood I'll drench it; |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [17] Nothing but burning sobs and tears tonight. |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [38] A pious one with a hundred beads on your rosary, |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham A Holy Tabernacle in the Heart (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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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Their mystery is (from Life of the Future World) |
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Akhmatova, Anna Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, |
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al-Alawi, Ahmad Layla |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Devotion for Thee |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Give Me |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah I Came |
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Arnaut Daniel The firm desire that enters |
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Ashford, Eric Suddenly |
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Ashford, Eric The Breath of Love |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Dullard Sage |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The pilgrim sees no form but His and knows (from Bou Ali and the Old Woman) |
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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 The Pupil asks; the Master answers |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din A dervish in ecstasy |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din Look -- I do nothing; He performs all deeds |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Lover |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The peacock's excuse |
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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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Aurobindo, Sri The Guest |
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Avaiyar Vinayagar Agaval |
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Bahu, Sultan So what if love's idol is hidden? One's heart will never be far away. |
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Basava Does it matter how long |
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Basava Feet will dance, |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Beni Raga Ramkali |
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Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God) |
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Clare of Assisi Happy, indeed, is she whom it is given to share this sacred banquet, |
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Clare of Assisi Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! |
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Clare of Assisi When You have loved, You shall be chaste |
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Cloud of Unknowing Blessed With a Kiss |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The Presence of Love |
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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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cummings, e. e. i carry your heart with me |
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cummings, e. e. now does our world descend |
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Dariya Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom. (from Love Chapter) |
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Dickinson, Emily [642] Me from Myself -- to banish -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [1507] The Pile of Years is not so high |
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Efendi, Seyh Ibrahim The Sufi Way |
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Emre, Yunus I am before, I am after |
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Emre, Yunus Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge: |
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Emre, Yunus One Who Is Real Is Humble |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh Do not speak a hurtful word, |
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Feuerstein, Georg Squaring the Circle |
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Feuerstein, Georg The Crone's Blessing |
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Francis of Assisi Let the whole of mankind tremble |
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Francis of Assisi Let us desire nothing else |
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Francis of Assisi Prayer Inspired by the Our Father |
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Francis of Assisi The Prayer Before the Crucifix |
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Galib, Seyh Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth; |
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Ganjavi, Mahsati The Pathway Finally Opened |
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Gibran, Kahlil Reason and Passion (from The Prophet) |
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Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge (from The Prophet) |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Ha! A rush of bliss (from Faust) |
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Govindasvamin Holy sixth day |
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Granger, Ivan M. Cheshire Cat |
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Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 5: when I spilt my blood |
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Hadewijch The Queen of Sheba |
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Hafiz A New World |
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Hafiz If life remains, I shall go back to the tavern |
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Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
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Hafiz Spring and all its flowers |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Crystal Rim |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Consumed in Grace |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) How Could a Lover Fall? |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Love is the Funeral Pyre |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Thousand-Stringed Instrument |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Today |
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Hallaj (al-Hallaj, Mansur) If They Only Knew |
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Hallaj (al-Hallaj, Mansur) You glide between the heart and its casing |
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Han-Ch'ing, Kuan Idle Wandering |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) My heart is like the autumn moon |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [7] You have seen the blossoms among the leaves; |
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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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Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power |
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Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) The Face of God |
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Herbert, George Prayer (I) |
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Herbert, George The Altar |
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Herbert, George The Flower |
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Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Intimate Hymn |
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Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua The Word Most Precious |
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Hildegard of Bingen Ave generosa / Hymn to the Virgin |
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Hildegard of Bingen Columba aspexit / Sequence for Saint Maximin |
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Hildegard of Bingen O Euchari in leta via / Sequence for Saint Eucharius |
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Hildegard of Bingen O ignee Spiritus / Hymn to the Holy Spirit |
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Hildegard of Bingen O ignis Spiritus Paracliti / Sequence for the Holy Spirit |
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Himmet, Kul No Ordinary Goods |
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley God's Grandeur |
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Hui K'o No me: Dharmas all |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin As Night Let its Curtains Down in Folds |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin My heart has become capable of every form |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin While the sun's eye rules my sight, |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar In truth, I led my prayer leader in prayer (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn Ata' Illah How utterly amazing is someone who flees from something he cannot escape |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon I look for you early, |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon I Sought Thee Daily |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Thou art One |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Bright are Thy tresses, brighten them even more, (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love the phoenix cannot be trapped |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Sing |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin We Yield Our Hearts |
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Islam, Nazrul Come silently like the Moon |
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Islam, Nazrul He who has seen my Mother |
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Islam, Nazrul Let's Meet Hereafter! |
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Jacobsen, Rolf Guardian Angel |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? (from In Praise of Divine Love) |
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Janabai By my life I will not let you go |
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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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John of the Cross Dark Night |
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Kabir Hang up the swing of love today! |
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Kabir lift the veil |
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Kabir The Lord is in Me |
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Kabir [XII] Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale. |
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Kabir [XVII] The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright: |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) Look into the mirror of a loving heart |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The mountain stands steady in its grandeur, |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) What mind can possibly approach you |
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Kalidasa Waking |
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Kamalakanta Is my black Mother Syama really black? |
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Kamalakanta Mother, |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [14] The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon |
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Lalan Could I ever forget him |
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Lawrence, D. H. Pax |
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Lee, Li-Young One Heart |
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Levine, Stephen Half life |
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Levine, Stephen Hatching dragonflies |
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Levine, Stephen Millennium blessing |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Lu Tung Pin My heart is the clear water in the stony pond. |
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Lu Tung Pin When the moon is high I'll take my cane for a walk, |
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Machado, Antonio I dreamt you took me |
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Machado, Antonio Lord, You Tore from Me |
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Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
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Machado, Antonio Songs |
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Machado, Antonio The Waterwheel |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah If you long for the face of the Beloved, |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah The sun's radiance in her face is in |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah Turn the darkness of heart by the elixir of the people of the secret, |
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Mahadevi, Akka He bartered my heart |
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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 Necklet of Nine Gems |
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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 Beauty & the Heart |
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McCombs, Chris Go Deeper |
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McCombs, Chris Passion for the Sacred |
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McCombs, Chris Pavanas |
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McCombs, Chris Roos O Shab |
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McCombs, Chris Swan Born |
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McCombs, Chris The Tavern |
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McCombs, Chris Your Pilot |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg The devil also offers his spirit |
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Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City |
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Merton, Thomas O Sweet Irrational Worship |
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Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings |
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Milarepa The Profound Definitive Meaning |
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Mirabai I am pale with longing for my beloved; |
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Mirabai O I saw witchcraft tonight |
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Mirabai The Heat of Midnight Tears |
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Mirabai Unbreakable, O Lord, |
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Misri, Niyazi Now No Trace Remains |
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Mistral, Gabriela The Rose |
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Mistral, Gabriela Those Who Do Not Dance |
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Muhaiyaddeen, Bawa The things that change are not our real life. |
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Muhaiyaddeen, Bawa There is One God. |
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Namdev He is the One in many, |
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Namdev The drum with no drumhead beats; |
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Nammalvar The earth and the far-flung sky |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin At love's most sumptuous feast was I with love made drunk - |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence. What I saw |
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Neruda, Pablo Poetry |
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Nevins, Shawn I AM |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone -- |
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O'Donohue, John A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted |
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O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved |
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Oliver, Colin Become Nothing |
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Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
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Po Chu-i Autumn's Cold |
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Po, Li Parting |
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Pope, Alexander The Universal Prayer |
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Porete, Marguerite O Lover of gentle nature, |
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Qushayri The Watchers |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) My joy -- |
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Rahman Baba Soul Train |
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Rahman Baba Sow Flowers |
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Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe, |
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Ramananda Raga Basant |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Ma, You're inside me; |
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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) This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kali! |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Rasakhan Loving Vow |
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Rasakhan Offer Your Heart |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Vision |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Duration of Childhood |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Mausoleum |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) |
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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 I regard not the outside and the words, |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin No end to the journey |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The beauty of the heart |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The glow of the light of daybreak is in your emerald vault, the goblet of the blood of twilight is your blood-measuring bowl. |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The grapes of my body can only become wine |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The Sun Must Come |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Saadi The world, my brother! will abide with none, |
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Sanai, Hakim The way to You |
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Sanai, Hakim The Wild Rose of Praise |
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Sarmad Companion |
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Sarmad My friend, engage your heart in his embrace |
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Sarmad My heart searched for your fragrance |
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Sarmad The ocean of his generosity has no shore. |
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Schuon, Frithjof Heart's Wisdom |
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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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Shih Shu as flowing waters disappear into the mist |
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Singh, Darshan How should I tell of the feeling that reigns |
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Singh, Darshan In what state was I |
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Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! |
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Snyder, Gary For All |
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Solovyov, Vladimir All in azure today |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Near, far off, not here, not there, |
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Stein, Edith I Will Remain With You... |
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Stein, Edith Novena Of The Holy Spirit |
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Sun Buer Refining the Spirit |
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Symeon the New Theologian The fire rises in me, |
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Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Listen, can you hear it? (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Who are You, who keeps my heart awake? (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Your flute plays the exact notes of my pain. (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (38) I want thee, only thee (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (63) Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (81) On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali) |
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Teasdale, Sara It Is Not a Word |
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Teasdale, Sara Oh You Are Coming |
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Teasdale, Sara The Fountain |
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Teasdale, Sara Two Songs for Solitude |
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Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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Thayumanavar To have reached the state of impassivity that holds (from Bliss that is Perfect Full) |
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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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Trungpa, Chogyam A Heart Lost and Discovered |
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Tsvetaeva, Marina The gold that was my hair has turned |
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Tukaram All men to me are god-like Gods! |
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Tulsidas Sound Celestial |
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Tulsidas The Rainy Season |
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Tung-Shan (Tozan) Verses on the Five Ranks |
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Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch |
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Vidyapati All my inhibition left me in a flash, |
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Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand, |
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Vidyapati My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain |
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Walters, Dorothy Taken |
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Whitman, Walt [24] Walt Whitman, a cosmos, of Manhattan the son, (from Song of Myself) |
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Wordsworth, William Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 |
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Wordsworth, William Imagination--here the Power so called (from The Prelude, Book 6) |
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Wordsworth, William The Daffodils |
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Yeats, William Butler Sailing to Byzantium |
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Yeats, William Butler The Blessed |
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Yeats, William Butler The Everlasting Voices |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa What bliss at the sight of Thy light! |
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Yun-k'an Tzu by willow's shade |
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Yun, Hsu Heart of the Buddha |
