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A Morning Offering |
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For Freedom |
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For Light |
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Abhishiktananda, Swami (Le Saux, Henri) Arunachala is a symbol |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said When the desire for the Friend became real |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham And the letter is longing |
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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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Angelou, Maya On the Pulse of Morning |
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Angelou, Maya Savior |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Empty Me of Everything But Your Love |
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Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn If what she says is true |
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Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever |
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Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn When we came together |
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Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn While the sun's eye rules my sight |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din Both this world and the next |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Valley of the Quest |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The peacock's excuse |
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Aurobindo Tree |
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Bernart de Ventadorn When I see the lark beating |
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Boethius The Bent of Nature |
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Brabazon, Francis Once God, that Great Being (from Stay With God) |
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Brabazon, Francis The world is being run on time |
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Brabazon, Francis We have waited all night for you, and now the dawn is come |
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Broughton, James Easter Exultet |
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Broughton, James Having Come This Far |
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Broughton, James Quit your addiction |
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Broughton, James The Gardener of Eden |
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Clare of Assisi O blessed poverty |
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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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cummings, e. e. may my heart always be open to little |
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Dadu Dayal As many as are the waves of the sea |
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Daniel, Arnaut The firm desire that enters |
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Dickinson, Emily There came a Day at Summer's full |
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Emre, Yunus Let Them Have Paradise |
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Emre, Yunus The mature ones are a sea |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh Raga Asa |
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Fox, John There is an Origin |
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Francis of Assisi Let us desire nothing else |
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Francis of Assisi Prayer from 'A Letter to the Entire Order' |
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Francis of Assisi Prayer Inspired by the Our Father |
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Francis of Assisi The Salutation of the Virtues |
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Gascoigne, Dame Catherine One thing alone I crave / Unum sit mihi totum |
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Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil |
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Gibran, Kahlil Prayer |
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Gyatso, Kelsang Little Tiger |
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Hadewijch Love's constancy |
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Hafiz A New World |
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Hafiz O Saghi, pass around that cup of wine, then bring it to me |
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Hafiz The Essence of Grace |
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Hakuin You no sooner attain the great void |
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Hildegard von Bingen O ignee Spiritus / Hymn to the Holy Spirit |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Bread and Wine, Part 7 |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [56] The hungry are served a king's repast (from The Shodoka) |
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Ibn Ata' Illah A feeling of discouragement when you slip up |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Ecstasy |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon I Sought Thee Daily |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon You are wise (from From Kingdom's Crown) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin I want Union with Him |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love the phoenix cannot be trapped |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin We Yield Our Hearts |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) As air carries light poured out by the rising sun |
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Jami, Ahmad Even from earthly love thy face avert not |
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Jayadeva My heart values his vulgar ways (from The Gitagovinda) |
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John of the Cross Not for All the Beauty |
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Kabir Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) My Dear One |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Kuzminsky, Irina A Sequence of Embraces |
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Lalla If you've melted your desires |
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Lalla What is worship? Who are this man |
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Levertov, Denise Beginners |
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Lowitz, Leza Waiting |
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Mahadevi, Akka Like a silkworm weaving |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Necklet of Nine Gems |
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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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Mei, Yuan Mad Words |
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Milarepa Response to a Logician |
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Mirabai I am true to my Lord |
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Mueller, Lisel Why I Need the Birds |
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Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) Prayers for the Protection and Opening of the Heart |
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Namdev He is the One in many |
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Nammalvar O Lord, infinite in Thy glory, |
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Novalis The youth thou art who ages long hast stood |
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Nurbakhsh, Javad Come! |
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Nurbakhsh, Javad Desiring You |
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Nurbakhsh, Javad The Image of Existence |
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Oliver, Mary When Death Comes |
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P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) The mind is like a reflection in a mirror |
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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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Patrul Rinpoche Advice from Me to Myself |
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Porete, Marguerite Beloved, what do you want of me? |
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Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness |
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Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) My joy |
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Rahman Baba Antics of the Age |
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Ramananda Raga Basant |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Once for all, this time |
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Ravidas If You are a mountain |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Reflection |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Duration of Childhood |
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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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Rosenstock, Gabriel I was a beggar |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel Stars |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel the herring gull repeatedly lifts a crab |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (3) From clear air (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (7) Were I a little bird (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana 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, Mevlana Jelaluddin The real work belongs to someone who desires God |
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Sanai, Hakim Naked in the Bee-House |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Sarmad Companion |
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Saure, Gunter The Meeting |
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Shankara Nirvana Shatakam |
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Shankara The Shattering of Illusion (Moha Mudgaram from The Crest Jewel of Discrimination) |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) To glorify the Way what should people turn to |
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Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! |
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Solovyov, Vladimir If desires fly by like shadows |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Stagnaro, Janaka Crushing Leaves |
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T'ao Ch'ien After Liu Ch'ai-Sang's Poem |
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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 (38) I want thee, only thee (from Gitanjali) |
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Taliesin Primary Chief Bard |
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Teasdale, Sara Oh You Are Coming |
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Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tukaram O God, grant only this boon |
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Tukaram This heart of mine is determined that for me now |
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Tulsi Sahib The Rainy Season |
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Vidyapati All my inhibition left me in a flash |
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Vidyapati My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain |
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Vivekananda Song of the Sanyasin |
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Walters, Dorothy Gifts |
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Walters, Dorothy Still Life |
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Whitman, Walt O Me! O life! |
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Yeats, William Butler Sailing to Byzantium |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Prayer for the Great Enlightenment |
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Yun, Hsu Going Beyond Desire |
