"Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul."

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Source : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

Olga Broumas

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“Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.”
“I love going out. I love partying.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and Iâ€™m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.”
“To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing law of measure for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment of the law.”
“The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.”
“The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.”
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”
“You stand still, somebody might get close to you. I don't stand still much anymore.”

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