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Hide and seek
03:09
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No limit
03:25
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Tea Party
02:56
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Small as we are, deep inside
There’s an ocean, a tide
Don’t fear, don’t hide
Let’s get drunk on the fountain that’s inside of us
Dive in dive in dive in
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Guide us into love
03:08
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The fountain
02:23
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A Suspended Blue Ocean
The sky
Is a suspended blue ocean.
The stars are the fish
That swim.
The planets are the white whales
I sometimes hitch a ride on,
And the sun and all light
Have forever fused themselves
Into my heart and upon
My skin.
There is only one rule
On this Wild Playground,
For every sign Hafiz has ever seen
Reads the same.
They all say,
"Have fun, my dear; my dear, have fun,
In the Beloved's Divine
Game,
O, in the Beloved's
Wonderful
Game."
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Spiral
01:40
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1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765
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Vow (A song for Moctar)
02:22
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And I sing into the night
This vow that I call
That I’ll live to give
This love that’s for all
This night as my witness
I promise with persistence,
That I’ll live to give
This love that’s for all
And I offer this song
As a humble abode
For this path that we’re on now
To carry us along
And I’ll live to give
This love that’s for all
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Sand grain
02:06
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Same same
02:30
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We’ve played the game of shapes for far too long,
I hold myself hostage in this framework of body and form and shadow and death.
And you? You I’ve pinned into the coffins of judgment and words and identity.
You I name You.
Different from Me.
Throw out the corpse.
Let’s live with wings.
Love plays in the field beyond form.
There, death is but a dream.
Two cups of water stand at a distance from each other.
They say, “You are different”.
I came to the cups and shattered them.
Then water and water were indistinguishable.
I stand in front of you and say, “You are different”.
Wisdom shattered me and love and love were indistinguishable.
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Pull away the layers
03:41
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Pull away the layers
Pull away the layers
I throw out the old story
I’ve told
Stories I’ve buried myself in
Stories of old
I pull away the layer
I pull away the layer
Uncover the gold
Uncover the gold
We are blank canvases
Ripe for the masterpiece
I pull away the layers
Moment by moment, creation is mine,
And I pull away the layers
I pull away the layers
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Joy and the Big B Portland, Oregon
Exploring the goodness of this deep, boundless heart through the loving connection of music as its expression. I am but a little atom in this cosmic symphony and this is the humble note I add to the orchestra of Love!
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