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Secular or Eclectic
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
Contemporary

About Shawn Nevins

Timeline (1968 - )

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Original Language
English

Do not care for the names of things

Themes
  Light
 
 
 
 

 

Do not care for the names of things
or for the particulars.
It is the patterns that call out to you.
For in patterns you find the hand of God --
in names, the hand of man.
All you possess are words.
What you are is a play of light
upon the still hand of eternity.

 

 

 

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