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Like This
If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,Like this.
When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,Like this.
If anyone wants to know what “spirit” is,
or what “God’s fragrance” means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.Like this.
When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.Like this.
If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.Like this. Like this.
When someone asks what it means
to “die for love,” point
here.
If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.This tall.
The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.Like this.
When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.Like this.
I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret.Like this.
When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.Like this.
How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?
Huuuuu.How did Jacob’s sight return?
Huuuu.A little wind cleans the eyes.
Like this.
When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he’ll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprise usLike this.
Rumi -
Equal with colleagues in a ring
I sit on each calm evening
Enchanted as the flowers
The opening light draws out of hiding
With all its gradual dove-like pleading,
Its logic and its powers:
That later we, though parted then,
May still recall these evenings when
Fear gave his watch no look;
The lion griefs loped from the shade
And on our knees their muzzles laid,
And Death put down his book.W.H. Auden -
… you just can’t differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
Isaac Asimov -
Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken
Agatha Christie
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“Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.
“No!”
“If you save somebody’s life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I’m all yers.”Moira Young
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You don’t have to be psychic to end up knowing things you were a lot happier not knowing.
Jordan Castillo Price -
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt Whitman -
In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?
Ranier Maria Rilke -
I’m merely exploring souls & cities
From the vantage point
Of my ivory tower built,
Built with the assistance
of OpiumThat’s enough, isnt it?
Jack Kerouac -
And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we’re this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull between us becomes.
Cora Carmack
