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Love and Bliss

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Let us roll all our strength, and allOur sweetness, up into one ball;And tear our pleasures with rough strifeThorough the iron gates of life.Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.from To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (1681) What perfect synchronicity! Now, in the height of the fertile, … Read more

The Dreams of Your Body

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Listen, whatever it is you tryto do with your life, nothing will ever dazzle youlike the dreams of your body, its spiritlonging to fly while the dead-weight bones toss their dark mane and hurryback into the fields of glittering fire where everything,even the great whale,throbs with song.The Humpbacks by Mary Oliver When we experience bliss, … Read more