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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

--ee cummings

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Matrin Luther King Jr. regarding his eulogy...

Tell him not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize--that isn't important. Tell him not to mention that I have 300 or 400 other awards--that's not important. Tell him not to mention where I went to school... I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to love somebody.

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

--Erica Jong (American writer and feminist, 1942)

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"Human beings should love animals as the knowing love the innocent, and the strong love the vulnerable."

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I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagoda, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere.

I searched the mountains and the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Kaaba in Mecca, but He was not there either.

I questioned the scholars and philosophers, but He was beyond their understanding.

I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw him; He was nowhere else to be found.

--Jalaluddin Rumi

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