"Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

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Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
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"In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
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