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  • There is a candle in your heart…

    By Rumi

    There is a candle in your heart,
    ready to be kindled.
    There is a void in your soul,
    ready to be filled.
    You feel it, don’t you?
    You feel the separation
    from the Beloved.
    Invite Him to fill you up,
    embrace the fire.
    Remind those who tell you otherwise that
    Love
    comes to you of its own accord,
    and the yearning for it
    cannot be learned in any school.

    From: Hush Don’t Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
    Translated by Sharam Shiva

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  • Disappearance

    Disappearance

    by Thich Nhat Hanh

    The leaf tips bend
    under the weight of dew.
    Fruits are ripening
    in Earth’s early morning.
    Daffodils light up in the sun.
    The curtain of cloud at the gateway
    of the garden path begins to shift:
    have pity for childhood,
    the way of illusion.

    Late at night,
    the candle gutters.
    In some distant desert,
    a flower opens.
    And somewhere else,
    a cold aster
    that never knew a cassava patch
    or gardens of areca palms,
    never knew the joy of life,
    at that instant disappears-
    man’s eternal yearning.

    From Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh

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