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For Presence |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham And YHVH spoke to me when I saw His name |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World) |
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Adyashanti The Shape of Love |
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Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect |
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Angelou, Maya Million Man March Poem |
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Angelou, Maya Phenomenal Woman |
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Angelou, Maya Savior |
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Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn When we came together |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din A slave's freedom |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din A dervish in ecstasy |
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Aurobindo The Word of The Silence |
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Avaiyar Vinayagar Agaval |
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Basava The waters of joy |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Bernart de Ventadorn When I see the lark beating |
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Berry, Wendell Enriching the Earth |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Blake, William Eternity |
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Blake, William The Divine Image |
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Booth, Philip Saying It |
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Broughton, James Having Come This Far |
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Broughton, James Lessen the doldrums |
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Broughton, James The Bliss of With |
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Broughton, James The Gardener of Eden |
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Carpenter, Edward Freedom! the deep breath! |
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Carpenter, Edward The sun shines, as of old |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To Nature |
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cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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cummings, e. e. now does our world descend |
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Dadu Dayal As many as are the waves of the sea |
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Daniel, Arnaut The firm desire that enters |
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Dickinson, Emily 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! |
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Dickinson, Emily It is a lonesome Glee |
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Dickinson, Emily Between the form of Life and Life |
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Feuerstein, Georg The Original Oak |
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Francis of Assisi Let us desire nothing else |
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Ghalib, Mirza Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise |
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Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river |
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Gibran, Kahlil Prayer |
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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 Something Like the Sun |
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Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim |
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Gyatso, Chone Lama Lodro A Dance of Unwavering Devotion |
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ha Nagid, Samuel Answer Me |
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Hadewijch Love Has Seven Names |
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Hafiz The Pearl on the Ocean Floor |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) Hymn for the Descent to the Merkava |
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Hildegard von Bingen Ave generosa / Hymn to the Virgin |
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Hildegard von Bingen Holy Spirit of Fire |
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Hirshfield, Jane A Hand |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [21] Since I abruptly realized the unborn (from The Shodoka) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [23] When you truly awaken (from The Shodoka) |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Ecstasy |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Thou Livest |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Who can do as Thy deeds |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Who could accomplish what you've accomplished |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad The secret divine my ecstasy has taught (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Every word of every tongue is |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) In losing all, the soul has risen (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? (from In Praise of Divine Love) |
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Jayadeva My heart values his vulgar ways (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva When he quickens all things (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jnaneshwar The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav) |
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John of the Cross I Entered the Unknown |
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John of the Cross Not for All the Beauty |
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John of the Cross On the Communion of the Three Persons (from Romance on the Gospel) |
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Kabir Hang up the swing of love today! |
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Kabir The bhakti path winds in a delicate way |
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Kabir The Guest is inside you, and also inside me |
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Kabir The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright |
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Kabir The Lord is in Me |
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Kabir The Time Before Death |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The Mind Like a Firefly |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The mountain stands steady in its grandeur |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) What mind can possibly approach you |
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Kalidasa Exhortation of the Dawn |
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Kamalakanta O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss! |
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Kamalakanta The black bee of my mind is drawn in sheer delight |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [74] Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane |
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Khayyam, Omar [75] And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu I have been a wanderer long (from The Search) |
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Lalla I traveled a long way seeking God |
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Lalla To learn the scriptures is easy |
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Lawrence, D. H. God is Born |
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Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms |
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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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Luria, Isaac A Poem for the Small Face |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Necklet of Nine Gems |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Song of the Poppadum |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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Meher Baba How Wonderful is the murderous mercy of God! |
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Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus |
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Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
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Milosz, Czeslaw This Only |
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Mirabai The Beloved Comes Home |
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Mirabai Why Mira Can't Come Back to Her Old House |
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Muktananda, Swami Mukteshwari |
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Nirmala A lasting marriage |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone |
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O'Brian, Ellen Grace Anahata |
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Oliver, Mary Mysteries, Yes |
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Osborne, Arthur Be Still |
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Pampattic Cittar Dance o snake |
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Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
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Patrul Rinpoche Advice from Me to Myself |
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Pattinattar The eightfold Yoga |
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Pope, Alexander The Dying Christian to His Soul |
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Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) My joy |
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Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Its value beyond assessment by the mind |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Of what use is my going to Kasi any more? |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who in this world |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who is that Syama woman |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Ramsay, Jay Blessed Unrest |
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Raphael Reed, Sabah I and I |
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Ravidas The Name alone is the Truth |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Bird Bath |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria As once the winged energy of delight |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (4) A daisy picked (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I smile like a flower not only with my lips |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Keep on knocking |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin On the Night of Creation I was awake |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness |
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Sanai, Hakim The Way of the Holy Ones |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Sarmast, Sachal I search in the streets, I cast my sights |
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Sarton, May Bliss |
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Schuon, Frithjof Heart's Wisdom |
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Shabistari, Mahmud Sun-Reflections (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
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Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) A Song by a Yogi in Solitude |
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Shankara The Shattering of Illusion (Moha Mudgaram from The Crest Jewel of Discrimination) |
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Shushtari, Abu al-Hasan al- You are ultimate joy |
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Silesius, Angelus God, whose love and joy are present everywhere |
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Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! |
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Solovyov, Vladimir And it was here -- it was autumn |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Sri Chinmoy (Kumar Ghose, Chinmoy) The Absolute |
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Surdas Krishna Awakes |
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Symeon the New Theologian As soon as your mind has experienced |
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Symeon the New Theologian The Light of Your Way |
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Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
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Symeon the New Theologian You, oh Christ, are the Kingdom of Heaven |
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Szymborska, Wislawa A Few Words on the Soul |
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Szymborska, Wislawa Nothing Twice |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (63) Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not (from Gitanjali) |
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Teasdale, Sara Joy |
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Tennyson, Alfred And Galahad fled along them bridge by bridge (from The Holy Grail) |
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Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God |
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Thayumanavar All visible life that is clothed in body vesture (from Bliss that is Perfect Full) |
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Thayumanavar O Mind, Be Clear |
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Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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Thayumanavar To have reached the state of impassivity that holds (from Bliss that is Perfect Full) |
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Thayumanavar What is it, which is |
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Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tiruvalluvar Love |
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Traherne, Thomas My Spirit |
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Traherne, Thomas The Bible |
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Traherne, Thomas The Rapture |
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Traherne, Thomas Wonder |
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Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness |
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Trungpa, Chogyam Expose |
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Trungpa, Chogyam The Education of the Warrior |
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Tukaram Can water drink itself? |
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Tulsi Sahib Sound Celestial |
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Tulsi Sahib The Rainy Season |
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Underhill, Evelyn Dynamic Love |
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Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand |
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Vidyapati The moon has shone upon me |
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Vivekananda Song of the Sanyasin |
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Waghray, Raj The One in White |
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Wei, Wang Drifting on the Lake |
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Whitman, Walt [2] Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes (from Song of Myself) |
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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 For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) |
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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 O joy! that in our embers (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality) |
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Wordsworth, William The Daffodils |
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Wordsworth, William Thus while the days flew by, and years passed on (from The Prelude, Book 2) |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa God! God! God! |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa What bliss at the sight of Thy light! |