I Carry Your Heart — e.e. cummings

May 10, 10 I Carry Your Heart — e.e. cummings

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I apologize for not posting more bold thoughts lately. There is a reason — as I haven’t felt so bold. A friend of mine was involved in a horrible accident and is fighting for her life. She is only 33 years old, the mother of two children and a wife. The news that I received last week has shook my foundation to the...

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A Prayer by Toyohiko Kagawa

Apr 15, 10 A Prayer by Toyohiko Kagawa

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I want to be ever a child  I want to feel an eternal friendship for the raindrops, the flowers, the insects, the snowflakes. I want to be keenly interested in everything, with mind and muscle ever alert, forgetting my troubles in the next moment. The stars and the sea, the ponds and the trees, the birds and the animals, are my...

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All the Hemispheres by Hafiz the Poet

Apr 12, 10 All the Hemispheres by Hafiz the Poet

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Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness And giving Upon our intimate assembly. Change rooms...

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Anyway by Mother Teresa – March 5, 2010

Mar 05, 10 Anyway by Mother Teresa – March 5, 2010

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People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and...

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Risk by Anais Nin – March 4, 2010

Mar 03, 10 Risk by Anais Nin – March 4, 2010

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And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom. -Anais Nin There inevitably comes a day — a moment — in which one can’t  remain the same…he or she must grow, even if change is scary beyond all belief. If this is that day for you, we wish...

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