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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by th...more

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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future ...more

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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

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How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.Horror tore this world asun...more

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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

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In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet S...more

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Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with m...more

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Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when t...more

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There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he h...more