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A Morning Offering |
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Beannacht / Blessing |
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For Freedom |
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For Presence |
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Abhishiktananda, Swami (Le Saux, Henri) Arunachala is a symbol |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Rise early at dawn, when our storytelling begins |
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Adyashanti Rest and Be Taken |
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Adyashanti The Shape of Love |
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Adyashanti Today I Awoke |
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Akha Speaker of truth and the sun -- these two |
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Akha The Essence is only as far away as the sky |
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Alighieri, Dante And as a ray descending from the sky (from The Paradiso, Canto I) |
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Allama Prabhu Looking for your light |
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Ammons, A. R. Still |
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Andal The lotus is greeting the rising sun and the lily has closed its petals; (from Tiruppavai) |
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Angelou, Maya A Brave and Startling Truth |
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Angelou, Maya Million Man March Poem |
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Angelou, Maya On the Pulse of Morning |
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Angelou, Maya Still I Rise |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Empty Me of Everything But Your Love |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din About True Seekers |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The pilgrim sees no form but His and knows |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din God Speaks to David |
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Aurobindo Reminiscence |
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Avaiyar Vinayagar Agaval |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath Tell me, what are you doing now, Mind |
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Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1999, VII |
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Berry, Wendell The Peace of Wild Things |
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Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem) |
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Blake, William Hear the voice of the Bard! |
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Blake, William Of the Sleep of Ulro! and of the passage through (from Jerusalem) |
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Boethius Love is Lord of All |
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Booth, Philip How to See a Deer |
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Booth, Philip Saying It |
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Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend |
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Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God) |
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Brabazon, Francis We have waited all night for you, and now the dawn is come |
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Bronte, Emily Last Lines |
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Broughton, James Quit your addiction |
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Broughton, James The Gardener of Eden |
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Carpenter, Edward The sun shines, as of old |
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Crashaw, Richard To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus |
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cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
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Dadu Dayal So priceless is the birth, O brother |
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Dickinson, Emily There came a Day at Summer's full |
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Dickinson, Emily It was a quiet way |
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Dogen, Eihei One of six verses composed in An'yoin Temple in Fukakusa, 1230: |
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Feuerstein, Georg Dawn of Wisdom |
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Feuerstein, Georg Our Worded Universe |
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Feuerstein, Georg The Original Oak |
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Fox, John Home Equity |
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Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil |
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Gibran, Kahlil Prayer |
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Gibran, Kahlil Reason and Passion |
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Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge |
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Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Ha! What is this dance of bliss (from Faust) |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von In the tides of life and action (from Faust) |
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Granger, Ivan M. First dawn |
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Granger, Ivan M. Empty Dawn |
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Gyatso, Chone Lama Lodro A Dance of Unwavering Devotion |
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Gyatso, Kelsang Little Tiger |
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Hafiz A New World |
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Hafiz Cupbearer, it is morning, fill my cup with wine |
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Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
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Hafiz The Pearl on the Ocean Floor |
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Halevi, Judah Lord, Where Shall I Find You? |
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Hallaj, Mansur al- If They Only Knew |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Hawkes, Patricia Conversion |
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Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power |
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Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Intimate Hymn |
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Hildegard von Bingen Columba aspexit / Sequence for Saint Maximin |
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Hildegard von Bingen De Spiritu Sancto / To the Holy Spirit |
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Hildegard von Bingen O mirum admirandum / Antiphon for Saint Disibod |
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Hirshfield, Jane The Lives of the Heart |
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Hirshfield, Jane The Task |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [4] Once we awaken to the Tathagata-Zen (from The Shodoka) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon I Sought Thee Daily |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Rise and open the door that is shut |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon You are wise (from From Kingdom's Crown) |
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Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) To write something and leave it behind us |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love the phoenix cannot be trapped |
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Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn |
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon Who Knows What is Going On |
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Kabir O Slave, liberate yourself |
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Kabir The Guest is inside you, and also inside me |
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Kalidasa Exhortation of the Dawn |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [38] One Moment in Annihilation's Waste |
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Khayyam, Omar [53] With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead |
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Kuzminsky, Irina A Sequence of Embraces |
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Lakota (Anonymous) Three Lakota Songs |
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Lee, Li-Young Night Mirror |
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Leon, Luis de Ode to Francisco Salinas |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Li Bai Along the Stream |
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Li Bai Clearing at Dawn |
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Li Bai Parting |
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Lowitz, Leza Waiting |
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Lu Tung Pin The Hundred Character Tablet (Bai Zi Bei) |
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Marpa (Lotsawa, Marpa) Realisation of Dreams and Mind |
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McCombs, Chris Is This Your Time? |
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Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City |
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Merton, Thomas Stranger |
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Meshullam da Piera Song at Dawn |
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Milarepa Song to the Rock Demoness |
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Mueller, Lisel Why I Need the Birds |
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Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) Prayers for the Protection and Opening of the Heart |
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Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) The Standing "My Time Has Come" |
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Nirmala it is here |
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O'Donohue, John For a New Beginning |
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Oliver, Mary Starlings in Winter |
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Oliver, Mary Sunrise |
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Oliver, Mary Thirst |
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Osborne, Arthur Be Still |
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Porete, Marguerite You who would read this book |
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Rabjampa, Longchen An Adamantine Song on the Ever-Present |
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Rahman Baba Soul Train |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Once for all, this time |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Ramsay, Jay Blessed Unrest |
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Ramsay, Jay St. Ives |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Dawn |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Late Autumn |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Buddha in Glory |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria For your sake poets sequester themselves |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Rememberance |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) |
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Roethke, Theodore The Waking |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel not the slaked thirst of Bayazid |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (8) Barefoot (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Ah, what was there in that light-giving candle that it set fire to the heart, and snatched the heart away? |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I smile like a flower not only with my lips |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Inner Wakefulness |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin On Love |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Today, like every other day, we wake up empty |
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Sarmad My friend, engage your heart in his embrace |
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Saure, Gunter The Meeting |
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Schneider, Pat Instructions for the Journey |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
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Shiki (Tsunenori, Masaoka) A pruned branch |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) Trying to become a Buddha is easy |
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Shore, Laura Jan Again |
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Shushtari, Abu al-Hasan al- My art |
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Singh, Darshan At dusk, at dawn I gaze upon your beauty |
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Singh, Darshan In what state was I |
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Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak |
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Snyder, Gary Manzanita |
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Soseki, Muso Buddha's Satori |
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Soseki, Natsume Plum flower temple |
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Stafford, William Any Morning |
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Stafford, William Yes |
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Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
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Teasdale, Sara Dew |
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Therese of Lisieux My Song for Today |
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Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew |
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Thomas, R. S. Lore |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Eärendil the Mariner |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Frodo's Lament for Gandalf |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Sam's Song of Strength |
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Trungpa, Chogyam The Education of the Warrior |
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Tu Fu Visiting the Monastery at Lung-men |
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Tukaram This heart of mine is determined that for me now |
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Ueshiba, Morihei The rays of the rising sun flow in |
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Ungar, Lynn The Way It Is |
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Vivekananda Song of the Sanyasin |
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Walters, Dorothy Don't Make Lists |
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Walters, Dorothy Gifts |
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Whitman, Walt I think I could turn and live with animals |
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Whitman, Walt O Captain! my Captain! |
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Whitman, Walt Pioneers! O Pioneers! |
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Whitman, Walt [44] It is time to explain myself -- let us stand up (from Song of Myself) |
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Wordsworth, William "If the dear faculty of sight should fail (from The Excursion, Book 4) |
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Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1) |
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Yeats, William Butler Crazy Jane and God |
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Yeats, William Butler The Dawn |
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Yeats, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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Yeats, William Butler The Secret Rose |
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Yen-shou, Yung-ming Immovable Mind |
