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Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier.¹

— attributed to Mother Teresa

He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.²

– Edwin Markam

She drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took her in.

– inspired by Edwin Markam

Love is patient, love is kind.  
Love is not jealous, 
it does not put on airs, 
it is not snobbish. 

Love is never rude, 
it is not self-seeking, 
it is not prone to anger; 
neither does it brood over injuries…

— I Corinthians 13:4

 What is hateful to you, 
do not do to your fellow man or woman.

That is the entire Law;
all the rest is commentary.

— Talmud, Shabbat 31a
AX 3331

Have we not all one Father-Mother? 

Hath not one God created us? 

— Malachai 2:10

 
 

Waves of the Ocean

[1] The Meditations of Fr. E.S.Q.S.: Vol I. (lulu.com, 2017), p. 30 AX 6758

[2] Edwin Markham, The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems, (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915), p. 1 AX 89

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