Sonnets 29, 30, and 31 – William Shakespeare
https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/sonnets/sonnet_view.php?Sonnet=all&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
Verses from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam “O Friend, for the morrow let us not worry” and “If my coming were up to me” https://www.okonlife.com/poems/page1.htm
When from my dying did I e’er grow less?* – Excerpt from poem by Jalaluddin Rumi
http://www.dcbuck.com/Talks/Rumi.html (To find the poem, scroll to the end of the essay)
Love Itself – Leonard Cohen https://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-love-itself-lyrics
Tao Te Ching, Verse One – Lao Tsu, translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (1972 and 1989 editions) https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html#Kap01
The Bell and the Blackbird – David Whyte
https://thedewdrop.org/2020/09/30/david-whyte-the-bell-and-the-blackbird/
If You Have Nothing – Jessica Powers (Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, OCD)
https://www.episcopalcafe.com/if-you-have-nothing/
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Attributed both to Rumi and an excerpt from A Course in Miracles, Chapter 16.
Desire – Alice Walker https://alicewalkersgarden.com/2011/02/desire/
The Journey – Mary Oliver https://static.oprah.com/images/201104/omag/the-journey.pdf
I Recall the Sea – Pablo Neruda Click here for link
Poet’s Obligation – Pablo Neruda
https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2011/10/07/pablo-neruda-the-poets-obligation/
Loaves and Fishes – David Whyte
https://wordsfortheyear.com/2016/03/07/loaves-and-fishes-by-david-whyte/
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