release, and radiance, and roses

 

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You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love. 

—Rumi

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We say release, and radiance, and roses,
and echo upon everything that's known;
and yet, behind the world our names enclose is
the nameless: our true archetype and home.

The sun seems male, and earth is like a woman,the field is humble, and the forest proud; but over everything we say, inhuman,
moves the forever-undetermined god.

We grow up; but the world remains a child.
Star and flower, in silence, watch us go.
And sometimes we appear to be the final
exam they must succeed on. And they do.


—Rainer Maria Rilke
Stephen Mitchell version

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You are music and rivers, palaces, angels, and skies,

an endless rose, infinite and intimate ...

—Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Weinfield version

The Endless Rose

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You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns,
you become carried away with yourself.

Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways.

And still, you are beautiful beyond measure.


—John Welwood

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