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Are you looking for me? (a poem by Kabir)

05 Thursday Feb 2015

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hide and seek

Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
―Kabir

chagrin (a tweet)

27 Tuesday May 2014

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absurdity, acceptance, arrogance, comfort, god, grace, grief, imbalance, surrender, tweet, zen

In hard times especially, I find myself confronted by my trademark absurdity: that I’m far more desirous that god should know me than that I should know god.

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electricity (Buber)

22 Friday Nov 2013

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friendship, god, love, quotations

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”                                 –Martin Buber

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