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AE (Russell, George William) The Place of Rest |
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al-Alawi, Ahmad Layla |
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Ammons, A. R. Rogue Elephant |
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Andal The lotus is greeting the rising sun and the lily has closed its petals; (from Tiruppavai) |
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Angelou, Maya Alone |
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Angelou, Maya Caged Bird |
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Angelou, Maya Million Man March Poem |
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Angelou, Maya On the Pulse of Morning |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The angels have bowed down to you and drowned |
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Aurobindo Reminiscence |
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Aurobindo The Word of The Silence |
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Basava Don't make me hear all day |
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Basava Make of my body the beam of a lute |
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Basho, Matsuo A banana plant in the autumn gale |
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Basho, Matsuo The temple bell dies away |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Berrigan, Daniel Consolation |
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Berry, Wendell Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front |
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Berry, Wendell The Peace of Wild Things |
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Berry, Wendell The Silence |
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Blake, William Hear the voice of the Bard! |
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Boethius The Bent of Nature |
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Booth, Philip Saying It |
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Brabazon, Francis Our drop souls are of the ocean of Truth |
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Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God) |
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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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Bulleh Shah The soil is in ferment, O friend |
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Carpenter, Edward Freedom! the deep breath! |
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Cavafy, Constantine P. Walls |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
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Colliver, Andrew This Soul |
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cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
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cummings, e. e. may my heart always be open to little |
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Dadu Dayal So priceless is the birth, O brother |
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Dariya Sahib of Bihar Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom (from Love Chapter) |
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Dickinson, Emily There came a Day at Summer's full |
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Dickinson, Emily It is a lonesome Glee |
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Dickinson, Emily The Loneliness One dare not sound |
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Dickinson, Emily Of whom so dear |
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Dogen, Eihei Ching-ch'ing's raindrop sound |
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Dogen, Eihei One of fifteen verses on Dogen's mountain retreat: |
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Dogen, Eihei One of six verses on snow: |
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Dogen, Eihei Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm |
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Dogen, Eihei One of six verses composed in An'yoin Temple in Fukakusa, 1230: |
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Emre, Yunus The Truth fills the world |
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Fox, John Blown Home |
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Fox, John Consider What Happens |
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Galib, Seyh Were I your treasure, you would squander me |
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Ghalib, Mirza These divine verses |
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Gibran, Kahlil Bewildered |
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Gibran, Kahlil Prayer |
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Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge |
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Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king |
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Gorakhnath Gorakh Bani |
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Granger, Ivan M. Bent |
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Granger, Ivan M. Medusa |
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Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim |
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ha Nagid, Samuel On Fleeing His City |
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Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
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Hafiz O Saghi, pass around that cup of wine, then bring it to me |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Crystal Rim |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Geronimo |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) How Could a Lover Fall? |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) That Lamp That Needs No Oil |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Source |
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Hakuin Hakuin's Song of Zazen |
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Han-Ch'ing, Kuan Idle Wandering |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Beneath high cliffs I live alone |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation |
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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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Herbert, George Prayer (I) |
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Hildegard von Bingen O ignee Spiritus / Hymn to the Holy Spirit |
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Hirshfield, Jane A Hand |
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Hirshfield, Jane Metempsychosis |
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Hirshfield, Jane The Lives of the Heart |
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Hirshfield, Jane To Hear the Falling World |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance |
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Holmes, Dick Words Call to You |
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Holmes, Dick You Have Me |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku Let others slander me (from The Song of Enlightenment) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [15] Some may slander, some may abuse (from The Shodoka) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [17] The incomparable lion-roar of doctrine (from The Shodoka) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [40] It speaks in silence (from The Shodoka) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [46] People hear the Buddha's doctrine of immediacy (from The Shodoka) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar No one speaks (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Resist the calls of wrangling talk (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Whispering, then listening close (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Where Will I Find You |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad The secret divine my ecstasy has taught (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin In the street of wineshops, when |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin It speaks to me in the silence of this one |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love plays its lute behind the screen |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin These perfumes |
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Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn |
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Issa, Kobayashi mountain temple |
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Jacobsen, Rolf The Silence Afterwards |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) How the Soul Through the Senses Finds God in All Creatures |
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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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Jami, Ahmad Even from earthly love thy face avert not |
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Janabai You must accept those who surrender to you |
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Jayadeva My heart values his vulgar ways (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon Full Consciousness |
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Jnaneshwar The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav) |
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John of the Cross I Live Yet Do Not Live in Me |
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Kabir Hey brother, why do you want me to talk? |
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Kabir I burst into laughter |
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Kabir The Guest is inside you, and also inside me |
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Kabir The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright |
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Kabir The Lord is in Me |
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Kabir The moon shines in my body |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) Take Refuge in Silence |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The Way To Peace |
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Kalidasa Exhortation of the Dawn |
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Kalidasa Waking |
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Kerouac, Jack Bowery Blues |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Kerouac, Jack The sound of silence |
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Khayyam, Omar [2] Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky |
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Khayyam, Omar [27] Myself when young did eagerly frequent |
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Khayyam, Omar [59] Listen again |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu I Am All |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu I walked on a path through the jungle |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu Song of the Beloved (from The Immortal Friend) |
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Lawrence, D. H. And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be-- |
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Lee, Li-Young Become Becoming |
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Lee, Li-Young Nativity |
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Lee, Li-Young Out of Hiding |
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Lee, Li-Young Praise Them |
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Lee, Li-Young ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ |
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Leon, Luis de A New Light Doth Shine |
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Leon, Luis de Ode to Francisco Salinas |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Levertov, Denise Illustrious Ancestors |
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Levertov, Denise Variation On A Theme By Rilke |
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Li Bai The Cold Clear Spring at Nanyang |
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Li Bai To Tu Fu from Shantang |
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Li Bai Visit to the Cold Clear Spring |
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Li Bai Visiting a Taoist on Taitien Mountain |
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Lu Tung Pin The Hundred Character Tablet (Bai Zi Bei) |
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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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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah Turn the darkness of heart by the elixir of the people of the secret |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Manikkavacakar While unperishing love melted my bones |
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Marpa (Lotsawa, Marpa) Realisation of Dreams and Mind |
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McCombs, Chris Is This Your Time? |
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McCombs, Chris Swan Born |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg The devil also offers his spirit |
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Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks |
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Merton, Thomas A Psalm |
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Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City |
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Merton, Thomas In Silence |
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Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus |
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Merton, Thomas Stranger |
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Merwin, W. S. Is anyone there |
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Merwin, W. S. Thanks |
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Merwin, W. S. To the New Year |
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Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
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Milarepa The Song of Perfect Assurance (to the Demons) |
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Milarepa Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones |
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Milosz, Czeslaw Forget |
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Milosz, Czeslaw On Angels |
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Milosz, Czeslaw On Pilgrimage |
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Mirabai Dark Friend, what can I say? |
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Mirabai I have heard that today Hari will come |
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Mueller, Lisel Why I Need the Birds |
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Nanak, Guru [Japji 8] From listening |
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Neruda, Pablo The Poet's Obligation |
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Nirmala truth is too simple for words |
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Nizamoglu, Seyyid Seyfullah The Path of Amazement |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone |
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Nurbakhsh, Javad The Beloved |
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O'Brian, Ellen Grace Anahata |
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O'Brian, Ellen Grace In the Heart is a Well |
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O'Donohue, John For a New Beginning |
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Oliver, Colin Evening |
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Oliver, Mary Can You Imagine? |
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Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? |
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Oliver, Mary Mindful |
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Oliver, Mary Morning Poem |
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Oliver, Mary The Lark |
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Oliver, Mary This World |
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Osborne, Arthur Death |
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Patrul Rinpoche Advice from Me to Myself |
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Pattinattar I left the world |
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Pope, Alexander Solitude: An Ode |
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Porete, Marguerite Beguines say I err... |
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Qushayri The Watchers |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep |
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Ramsay, Jay I saw a great light come down over London |
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Ramsay, Jay In the Aber Valley |
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Ramsay, Jay Infinity and Beyond |
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Ramsay, Jay St. Ives |
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Rasakhan Effortless Worship |
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Rasakhan Enchanted |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Deluge |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Vision |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Gong |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria I am praying again, Awesome One |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria I am, O Anxious One |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Silent friend of many distances, feel |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Man Watching |
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Roethke, Theodore In a Dark Time |
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Roethke, Theodore The Waking |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel I create silences |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel not the slaked thirst of Bayazid |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel on first hearing its name |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel The song of the river |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (15) Miracle (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana 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, Mevlana Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Like This |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin No One Here but Him |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin On Love |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin On the Night of Creation I was awake |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Sacrifice your intellect in love for the Friend |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Shall I tell you our secret? |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The minute I heard my first love story |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The real work belongs to someone who desires God |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin What I want is to see your face |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness |
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Sanai, Hakim The Way of the Holy Ones |
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Sanai, Hakim The Wild Rose of Praise |
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Santoka (Taneda, Santoka) If there are mountains, I look at the mountains |
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Santoka (Taneda, Santoka) The wind in the pines |
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Sarton, May Bliss |
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Sarton, May The Work of Happiness |
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Schneider, Pat Instructions for the Journey |
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Schuon, Frithjof Space |
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Shabistari, Mahmud Sun-Reflections (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) Outside the door I made but don't close |
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Shore, Laura Jan Don't Say It |
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silent lotus Feel the Peace |
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silent lotus There Dwells an Innocence |
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Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love? |
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Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! |
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Snyder, Gary Regarding Wave |
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Solovyov, Vladimir And it was here -- it was autumn |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Triumphing over death from the start (from Three Meetings) |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Near, far off, not here, not there |
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Sri Chinmoy (Kumar Ghose, Chinmoy) At Last I Shall Listen |
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Stafford, William A Message from Space |
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Stafford, William Any Morning |
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Stafford, William Being a Person |
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Stafford, William Cutting Loose |
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Stafford, William Vocation |
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Stafford, William You Reading This, Be Ready |
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Stevens, Wallace Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself |
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Surdas Krishna Awakes |
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Swir, Anna Priceless Gifts |
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Szymborska, Wislawa Among the Multitudes |
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Szymborska, Wislawa I'm Working on the World |
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Szymborska, Wislawa The Ball |
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Szymborska, Wislawa The Camel |
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T'ao Ch'ien Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Accept me, my lord, accept me for this while |
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Tagore, Rabindranath He's there among the scented trees (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Listen, can you hear it? (from The Lover of God) |
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Takahashi, Shinkichi A Wood in Sound |
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Tennyson, Alfred Crossing the Bar |
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Tennyson, Alfred If thou would'st hear the Nameless (from The Ancient Sage) |
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Thomas, R. S. But the silence in the mind |
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Thomas, R. S. Kneeling |
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Thomas, R. S. The Moor |
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Thomas, R. S. Threshold |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Eรคrendil the Mariner |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. I sit beside the fire and think |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Legolas's Song of the Sea |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Song of Beren and Lรบthien |
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Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness |
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Tukaram I have found the sea |
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Tulsi Sahib Sound Celestial |
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Tulsi Sahib The Rainy Season |
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Ueshiba, Morihei I stand in the mountain stream |
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Ungar, Lynn Boundaries |
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Vidyapati My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain |
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Waghray, Raj The Aftertaste of Transcendence |
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Waghray, Raj When the heart speaks... |
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Walters, Dorothy Gifts |
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Walters, Dorothy The Abundance of Brightness |
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Walters, Dorothy Whoever Went In |
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Wei, Wang Bamboo Cottage |
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Whitman, Walt O Captain! my Captain! |
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Whitman, Walt Pioneers! O Pioneers! |
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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 [3] I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [5] I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you (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 [18] With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums (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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Whyte, David All the True Vows |
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Whyte, David It is Not Enough |
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Wordsworth, William For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) |
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Wordsworth, William O joy! that in our embers (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality) |
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Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1) |
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Yeats, William Butler The Everlasting Voices |
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Yeats, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa O Spirit, reveal Thyself as Thou art |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa OM |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Prayer for peace |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
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Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi |
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Zohar (Leon, Moses de) The Gates (from Openings) |
