gh of this widowed evening
veiled with mist and rain.
73
Chastity is a wealth that comes from abundance of love.
74
The mist, like love, plays upon the heart of the hills and brings
out surprises of beauty.
75
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
76
The poet wind is out over the sea and the forest to seek his own
voice.
77
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet
discouraged of man.
78
The grass seeks her crowd in the earth.
The tree seeks his solitude of the sky.
79
Man barricades against himself.
80
Your voice, my friend, wanders in my heart, like the muffled
sound of the sea among these listening pines.
81
What is this unseen flame of darkness whose sparks are the stars?
82
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn
leaves.
83
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds
the gate open.
84
In death the many becomes one; in life the one becomes many.
Religion will be one when God is dead.
85
The artist is the lover of Nature, therefore he is her slave and
her master.
86
"How far are you from me, O Fruit?"
"I am hidden in your heart, O Flower."
87
This longing is for the one who is felt in the dark, but not seen
in the day.
88
"You are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the
smaller one on its upper side," said the dewdrop to the lake.
89
The scabbard is content to be dull when it protects the keenness
of the sword.
90
In darkness the One appears as uniform; in the light the One
appears as manifold.
91
The great earth makes herself hospitable with the help of the
grass.
92
The birth and death of the leaves are the rapid whirls of the
eddy whose wider circles move slowly among stars.
93
Power said to the world, "You are mine.
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house.
94
The mist is like the earth's desire. It hides the sun for whom
she cries.
95
Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers.
96
The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal.
97
I think of other ages that floated upon the stream of life and
love and death and are forgotten, and I feel the freedom of
passing away.
98
The sadness of my soul is her bride's veil.
It waits to be lifted in the night.
99
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible
to buy with l
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