And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

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Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.

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And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

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And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

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Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

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There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

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