Hope…

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”Hope never to believe it is your duty or right to harm another simply because you mistakenly believe they are not you.

 

Hope to understand suffering as the hard assignment even in school you wished to avoid.

 

…But could not.

 

Hope to be imperfect in all the ways that keep you growing.

 

Hope never to see another not even a blade of grass that is beyond your joy.

 

Hope not to be a snob the very day Love shows up in love’s work clothes.

 

Hope to see your own skin in the wood grains of your house.

 

Hope to talk to trees & at last tell them everything you’ve always thought.

 

Hope at the end to enter the Unknown knowing yourself. Forgetting yourself also.

 

Hope to be consumed to disappear into your own Love.

 

Hope to know where you are –Paradise–if nobody else does.

 

Hope that every failure is an arrow pointing toward enlightenment.

 

Hope to sin only….

 

in the service of waking up.”

 

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