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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

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves

• Emily Bronte



Poems of the Day
  • David Lehman
    To The Author Of Glare
    by David Lehman
    There comes a time when the story turns into twenty different stories and soon after that he academy of shadows retreats to the cave of a solitary boy in a thriving