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Any Lifetime

Rumi

Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
The water that pollutes you is poison;
The poison that purifies you is water.




Quotes of the Day

All mankind love a lover.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson


Poems of the Day
  • Joseph O. Legaspi
    This Town, Empty Nest
    by Joseph O. Legaspi
    There are no children here. The adults are strangely erotic in their miseries. This town, wrecked, solemn, can be named Longing: un-plucked wild berries dripping along infinite ...