as i exhale time into these last autumnal shadows, imperceptibly draping themselves across winter ready violets, wind hums its holy solstice song, underscoring heaven's circular dance. our patterns seamlessly refashioned, from an ever present past.
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared
~George Gordon, Lord Byron
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An image reflected in a mirror, a rainbow in the sky, and a painted scene make their impressions upon the mind, but in essence are other than what they seem.
look deeply at the world, and see an illusion, a magician's dream.
~"Song of the Immaculate Path"
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If we are related, we shall meet.
"The gods are to each other not unknown."
Friends also follow the rule of divine necessity: they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True ease in writing comes from art,
not chance,
As those move easiest, who have learned to dance.
~ Alexander Pope
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Nothing stands between me and God but the word "I."
~Yunus Emre 14th century Sufi Poet
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go towards the making of genius.
Love, Love, Love.
that is the Soul of genius
~Mozart
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
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True budo has no enemies. True budo is the manifestation of love...
If there is no love, nothing can be accomplished.
~Morihei Ueshiba
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There is nothing more truly artistic, than to love people.