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Adyashanti A Tendency to Shine |
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Akha Far away is the Lord Supreme; |
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Akha Speaker of truth and the sun -- these two -- |
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Akha When one settles into a state of desirelessness, |
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al-Alawi, Ahmad Layla |
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Alighieri, Dante All Being within this order, by the laws (from The Paradiso, Canto I) |
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Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect, |
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Allama Prabhu Light |
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Ammons, A. R. Hymn |
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Ammons, A. R. Rogue Elephant |
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Ashford, Eric Dances with Sophia |
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Ashford, Eric Ecstasy |
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Ashford, Eric Loves Portrait |
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Ashford, Eric Speak Yourself Open Like the Sky |
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Ashford, Eric The Breath of Love |
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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 Invocation |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din God Speaks to David |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din Mysticism |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The angels have bowed down to you and drowned |
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Bacharach, Naftali A Poem for the Sefirot as a Wheel of Light |
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Basava The eating bowl is not one bronze |
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Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1998, VI |
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Bhitai, Shah Abdul Latif If you are seeking Allah, |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Blake, William Hear the voice of the Bard! (from Songs of Experience) |
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Brabazon, Francis We have waited all night for you, and now the dawn is come. |
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Bronte, Emily No coward soul is mine, |
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Clare of Assisi What you hold, may you always hold. |
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Cloud of Unknowing Blessed With a Kiss |
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Cloud of Unknowing The Ecstasy of the Atoms |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The Presence of Love |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reason |
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Crashaw, Richard A Song |
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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 am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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Dadu Dayal So priceless is the birth, O brother, |
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Dariya Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom. (from Love Chapter) |
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Dickinson, Emily [365] Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? |
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Dickinson, Emily [611] I see thee better -- in the Dark -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [839] Always Mine! |
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Dionysius the Areopagite from The Doctrine of Infinite Growth |
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Efendi, Seyh Ibrahim The Sufi Way |
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Feuerstein, Georg Our Worded Universe |
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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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Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
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Galib, Seyh Were I your treasure, you would squander me, |
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Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Ha! A rush of bliss (from Faust) |
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Granger, Ivan M. Kona Winds |
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Granger, Ivan M. The Warbler Knows |
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Granger, Ivan M. Too many nights |
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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 Love Has Seven Names |
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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) Love is the Funeral Pyre |
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Hakuin The monkey is reaching |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Sitting alone in peace before these cliffs |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [203] Above Cold Mountain the moon shines alone |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Fall Moon Festival |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other |
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Hawaiian (Anonymous) Ho'opuka e-ka-la ma ka hikina/The Dawning of Enlightenment |
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Hayati, Bibi Before there was a hint of civilization |
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Hayati, Bibi How can I see the splendor of the moon |
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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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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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Hildegard of Bingen O virga mediatrix / Alleluia-verse for the Virgin |
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Himmet, Kul No Ordinary Goods |
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Hirshfield, Jane The Envoy |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Conviction |
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Holmes, Dick You Have Me |
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley God's Grandeur |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin Oh, her beauty--the tender maid! |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Compared to my dawn, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar From his light, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn Ata' Illah The light of the inner eye lets you see His nearness to you. |
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Ibn Ata' Illah Those travelling to Him |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Thou art the Supreme Light |
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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 To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Every word of every tongue is |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin The world but seems to be |
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Issa, Kobayashi by the light of graveside lanterns |
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Jacobsen, Rolf Guardian Angel |
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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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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love beyond all telling, (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love, infusing with light all who share Your splendor, (from In Praise of Divine Love) |
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Jayadeva [2] You rest on the circle of Sri's breast, (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon Full Consciousness |
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Jnanadev Knowledge and Ignorance (from Amritanubhav) |
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Jnanadev The Refutation of Knowledge (from Amritanubhav) |
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John of the Cross Full of Hope I Climbed the Day |
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John of the Cross Song of the Soul That Delights in Knowing God by Faith |
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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 [XVII] The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright: |
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Kabir (6) The moon shines in my body |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) Take Refuge in Silence |
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Kamalakanta Is my black Mother Syama really black? |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khunrath, Heinrich A Philosophicall short songe of the incorporating of the Spirit of the Lord in Salt |
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Ko Un Indangsu sea, shine dark blue, |
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Ko Un Two beggars |
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Kuhi of Shiraz, Baba In the market, in the cloister--only God I saw. |
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Lakota (Anonymous) Three Lakota Songs |
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Lalan As the man and the woman in me |
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Lalan The moon is encircled by moons. |
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Lalla (Ded, Lal) For a moment I suppressed the bellows of respiration, |
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Lawrence, D. H. And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be-- |
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Lawrence, D. H. God is Born |
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Leon, Luis de Ode to Francisco Salinas |
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Levertov, Denise Celebration |
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Levine, Stephen Meng's mountain |
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Luria, Isaac A Poem for the Small Face |
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Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping, |
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Machado, Antonio Songs |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah The light of the beloved rises from the horizon of my heart, |
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Mahadevi, Akka Sunlight made visible |
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Mahadevi, Akka You can confiscate |
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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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Maier, Michael If BOREAS can in his own Wind conceive (from Atalanta Fugiens) |
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Manikkavacakar Becoming sky & earth |
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Mathias, Michael The Tower of Silence |
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Mathias, Michael (2) Dukkha - The Cause of All Suffering (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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Mathias, Michael (9) My Blind Musicians (from Tagore: Gallery of Sketches) |
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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 Passion for the Sacred |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Wouldst thou know my meaning? |
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Merton, Thomas A Psalm |
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Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City |
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Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings |
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Meshullam da Piera Song at Dawn |
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Milarepa The Profound Definitive Meaning |
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Milarepa Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones, |
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Milosz, Czeslaw On Angels |
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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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Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) The Soul Speaks (from Hymn on the Fate of the Soul) |
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Namdev When I see His ways, I sing. |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin Canceled Out |
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Nawaz, Gharib Riddle |
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Nawaz, Gharib The Second Jesus |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence. What I saw |
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Neruda, Pablo Past |
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Neruda, Pablo Too Many Names |
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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 A simple gate of logs |
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Nevins, Shawn Do not care for the names of things |
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Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) The Standing "My Time Has Come" |
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Novalis When Geometric Diagrams... |
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O'Donohue, John A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted |
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O'Donohue, John Beannacht / Blessing |
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O'Donohue, John May the light of your soul guide you. |
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O'Donohue, John The Inner History of a Day |
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Oliver, Colin As these stars answer |
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Oliver, Colin Endpoem |
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Oliver, Colin Evening |
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Oliver, Colin Ploughing at Nightfall |
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Oliver, Mary Mindful |
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Oliver, Mary Spring |
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Oliver, Mary The Ponds |
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Pampattic Cittar Like the drops of water that will not adhere to the leaf of the lotus |
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Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
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Pima (Anonymous) Medicine Man's Song |
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Rahman Baba Sow Flowers |
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Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe, |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Conquer Death with the drumbeat Ma! Ma! Ma! |
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Ravidas How to Escape? |
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Reninger, Elizabeth BirdBath |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Dawn |
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Reninger, Elizabeth splash |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Vision |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (1) what speeded them on their way? (from Uttering Her Name) |
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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 I lost my world, my fame, my mind -- |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Reason, leave now! You'll not find wisdom here! |
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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 A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin You are closer to me than myself (Ghazal 2798) |
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Ryokan This world |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Sarmad Once I was bathed in the Light of Truth within, |
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Shabistari, Mahmud One Light |
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Shabistari, Mahmud Reason (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Mirror (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) A Song by a Yogi in Solitude |
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Shih-te (Pickup) [4] Behold the glow of the moon |
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silent lotus Feel the Peace |
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silent lotus In the Clearing |
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Silesius, Angelus Friend, whatever you are, you must not stand still: |
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Singh, Darshan At dusk, at dawn I gaze upon your beauty -- |
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Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love? |
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Singh, Darshan How should I tell of the feeling that reigns |
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Snyder, Gary How Poetry Comes to Me |
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Solovyov, Vladimir If desires fly by like shadows, |
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Solovyov, Vladimir The Sign |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Sophia in Egypt (from Three Meetings) |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Near, far off, not here, not there, |
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Soseki, Muso Temple of Eternal Light |
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Soseki, Muso The Gate of Universal Light |
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Stein, Edith Novena Of The Holy Spirit |
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Sun Buer The beginning of the sustenance of life |
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Surdas Krishna Awakes |
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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 We awaken in Christ's body |
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Teasdale, Sara I Am Not Yours |
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Teasdale, Sara It Is Not a Word |
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Thayumanavar All visible life that is clothed in body vesture (from Bliss that is Perfect Full) |
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Thayumanavar Let Us in Meekness Worship |
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Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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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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Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew |
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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 Exposé |
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Tu Fu Moon, Rain, Riverbank |
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Tu Fu Rain, Four Poems: Two Selections |
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Tukaram Smaller than the smallest atom, |
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Tulsidas Glimpse of the Invisible |
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Tulsidas The Rainy Season |
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Valad, Sultan The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive |
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Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch |
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Vaughan, Henry The Night |
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Vaughan, Henry Vanity of Spirit |
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Vivekananda, Swami In dense darkness, O Mother, |
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Vivekananda, Swami Kali the Mother |
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Vivekananda, Swami Song of the Sanyasin |
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Walters, Dorothy Don't Make Lists |
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Walters, Dorothy Scars of Rapture |
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Walters, Dorothy Shambhala |
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Walters, Dorothy The Abundance of Brightness |
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Wei, Wang Deer Fence |
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Wei, Wang Stone Gate Temple in the Blue Field Mountains |
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Whitman, Walt [2] Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [9] The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready, (from Song of Myself) |
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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 For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) |
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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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Wordsworth, William Visionary power (from The Prelude, Book 5) |
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Wordsworth, William [9] O joy! that in our embers (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality) |
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Yannai The Celestial Fire |
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Yeats, William Butler Crazy Jane and God |
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Yen-shou, Yung-ming Immovable Mind |
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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) [26] The moon shines on the river, (from The Shodoka) |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [44] Mind is the base, phenomena are dust; (from The Shodoka) |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [59] Two monks were guilty of murder and carnality. (from The Shodoka) |
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Yun, Hsu Feelings on Remembering the Day I first Produced the Mind |
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Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi |
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Zohar (de Leon, Moses) The Creation of Elohim |
