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The Still Voice
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Maharaj-ji used to say all the time, “If you want to put fresh milk in a cup, you have to wash it first. Otherwise the milk will turn sour.” So, this path is a path of cleaning the cup of our own hearts, to hold the nectar of love.
~ Krishna Das
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first of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again
~ Leonard Cohen
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The Mind Is Still
The mind is still. The gallant books of lies
are never quite enough.
Ideas are a whirl of mazy flies
over the pigs’ trough.
Words are my matter. I have chipped one stone
for thirty years and still it is not done,
that image of the thing I cannot see.
I cannot finish it and set it free,
transformed to energy.
I chip and stutter but I do not sing
the truth, like any bird.
Daily I come to Judgment stammering
the same half-word.
So what’s the matter? I can understand
