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The simple truthHear my voice
Hard it is to be born,
Hard it is to live,
Harder still to hear of the way,
And hard to rise, follow, and
awaken.
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That little children see?
I wonder if they see God first
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I ask God the question, Why?
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Where my complete beloved is.
In that place there is no happiness or unhappiness,
No truth or untruth
Neither sin nor virtue.
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Worship the lotus feet of the Indestructible One!
Whatever thou seest twixt earth and sky
Will perish.
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
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Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! —
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With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
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but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals;
and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through.
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What matters it, your faith, or mine?
Both centre at the goal divine
Of love’s eternal brotherhood.
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Life is but an empty dream! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
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I lift up my heart and rejoice,
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And goes down burning into the gulf below
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Without your woes. No path is wholly rough;
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And it’s probably too late now.
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