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Don't come in uninvited. Don't even knock. Wait for me to appear in your heart's ambit. For I am, after all, the wisdom of your own mind.
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Never let the past consume the present. Let the present absorb the past. And no future left to matter.
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I laid down a heavy burden called yesterday, another called tomorrow, and finally one called today.
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I’ll make my long goodbyes to the glory of her memory and her legend in the skies.
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You are grace and mystery uncaptured, breathtaking dancer on the stars, bringing another brilliance
to the startled moon.
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Never latch onto this or that person, this moment, that future, another past. Would you seize one color and call it a rainbow?
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The ultimate mystery all of us must penetrate is the human heart and its fathomless capacity to love friend and enemy alike with the same undisturbed compassion.
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Embrace your opponent, if only in your mind, as that may be the only place your opponent will accept your embrace.
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Make your heart a fortress without walls.
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Wisdom recognizes the inevitable. Grace accepts the inevitable. Love absorbs the inevitable.
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You'll know you've reached the endless shore when you sail into the sea of nothing.
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You have to be a hunter and gatherer of beauty in the primitive reality of things.
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I suppose what I've worshipped all along is the Soul of All Things: the miraculous in everything, the beauty that shines out from the heart of God.
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I loved you then, love you now; and though I gladly give you to the world, I will love you far beyond the confines of this life.
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You emerge from the common run of humanity and occupy an eternal part of my heaven.
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You have been a place of refuge for a friend; now discover the place inside yourself where every disruption finds its momentary end, and murmurs of love gracefully ascend.
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You have become eternity, the measureless shore of my undiscovered country.
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A wish is only the first faint whisper of intention and must be nourished with deep and abiding purpose to grow steadily, inevitably, into the great symphony of our whole being.
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You are too beautiful to be measured in the tired categories of the world's expectations.
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A true romantic must know in his heart that he never intends to get well.
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Faith is the willingness to commit yourself and your resources to a power or event beyond your capacity for calculation.
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“God hath given you one face,” sister, daughter, wife and mother: Not even Vermeer could hope to trace let alone paint you such another.
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The past is irredeemable, the future unapproachable. The only time to set your watch to is now.
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The only way to solve the insoluble is to dissolve into this moment, relinquish everything, and become utterly selfless.
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I don't want her kiss, don't need to hold her hand, nor feel her arms around me. All of that has evolved into her most constant presence in my heart.
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I am not the slave of feelings, nor the instrument of pain: Divinity plays all my stops and strings with melodies heard everywhere I go.
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You gave me something endless that no one's ever seen, and centuries after midnight you'll always fill my dreams.
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Even the sky misses you at night.
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My enemy, simply, is that which keeps me from the marriage between that which awaits redemption and who is to be delivered.
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I have never gone anywhere in search of your release from suffering that I have not found, waiting, smiling, my patient, better self.
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