" Grace "...

Meditation and self-discipline
are not all that's needed, nor even
a deep longing to go through
the door of freedom.


You may dissolve in contemplation,
as salt does in water,
but there's something more
that must happen.



- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic

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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992