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Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
May All Beings Everywhere Be Well
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The Simplest Touch
13:56
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The Simplest Touch
When I look into the night
And the stars and spheres surround me
Then with Joy I greet the source
Of the sounds and streams that found me
And to them I make my vow.
When I sink into the day
Staring at the deep blue sky
With my worries deaf and mute
Unremembering am I
In the numbness of the now.
Then I meet with you.
The simplest touch
Of hand to hand
Of flesh to flesh
Of like to like
Recalls the pact
Of light and light
And spans the cleft
'Twixt Day and Night.
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Know that I am with you, always, until the end of an aeon.
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Theme for the Waterman
13:33
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I dreamed that you, my child, were hungry.
And when I awoke, I found it to be true,
And the pain in my belly burned brown and pink and red
And I was consumed.
And though I tried, I could take no meat, nor drink, nor bread, nor fruit,
Not 'til after you had been fed.
I dreamed that you, my child, were cold.
And when I awoke I found it to be true,
And no matter how hard I shook or jumped or jogged or stood,
Before the brightly burning fire,
My own limbs ached with a numbing cold,
So cold that even my breath had the scent of snow covered stones
And though I tried, I could not be warm,
Not 'til you had bathed in the steaming spring waters,
And rested by the fire,
And changed into your finely woven clothes.
Then I dreamed that I was free
And I thought it to be true,
But when I awoke, I found that I was still bound
In chains to the things of this world
And I could not be free,
Not 'til you, my child, came with me to the banks of the river
To the banks that only one week ago
Had been flushed out by the rising flood.
And there on the sand-strewn banks of the flood plain,
You and I placed everything we had ever had to give into the waters.
I watched as everything I owned ascended into the form of a cloud
And floated away toward the East,
While in the river
All the water that ever was in the world
Rushed toward the West,
Toward the great downriver ocean.
And there, in the reflection in your eyes
I could see on the face of the river
The stones began to dance
And the trees began to smile
And for a moment, locked in that gaze,
We were free.
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Ich Sehe Dich
01:45
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Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern,
Maria, lieblich ausgedrückt,
Doch keins von allen kann dich schildern,
Wie meine Seele dich erblickt.
Ich weiß nur, dass der Welt Getümmel
Seitdem mir wie ein Traum verweht,
Und ein unnennbar süßer Himmel
Mir ewig im Gemüte steht.
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Cale Brandley Wilton, New Hampshire
Cale Brandley lives, works, and plays in Monadnock region in Southern Dawn Land, New Hampshire. The music on this site is a roughly hewn mosaic of different times, different places, different people, and different styles--humble draughts from the stream of Eternity. Through it all, there winds a silver thread of Hope, Faith, and Love in the future of humanity and the beauty of the human tone. ... more
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