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It can't be done, but the attempt must be made

Give yourself to the one who already owns your breath and your moments

This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival...Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

Surely vision has loyalties. Someone buying eye medicine does not see well but well enough, at least, to choose the cure.

Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things

What is poison to one is honey to someone else

no one knows the source of joy

Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

When the ocean wants the dry stems calm, it sends them close to shore.

your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested