When We Practice Loving Kindness

Your Spirit Is Mingled With Mine What Touches You, Touches Me.

When You Are Dead, Seek For Your Resting Place Not In The Earth, But In The Hearts Of Men.

There Is Some Kiss We Want With Your Whole Lives, The Touch Of Spirit On The Body. Seawater Begs The Pearl To Break Its Shell. And The Lily, How Passionately It Needs Some Wild Darling.

We Began As Mineral. We Emerged Into Plant Life, And Into The Animal State, And Then Into Being Human, And Always We Have Forgotten Our Former States, Except In Early Spring When We Slightly Recall Being Green Again.

Your Radiance Shines In Every Atom Of Creation Yet Our Petty Desires Keep It Hidden.