Joyas voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them, and the white men had never seen such creatures, for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas, nowhere else in the universe.
He stops short, horrified that he has interrupted his employer during an emotional moment. Bishop quickly wipes away her tears and says, in Portuguese, Don’t worry, José. I’m only crying in English.
Meditation teaches that change is constant. You fool yourself into believing that you are a fixed entity, but you are not. You are a river of transforming whims.
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
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The people I love the best / jump into work headfirst / without dallying in the shallows / and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
I want to be excused, at least this once, from being me, and be instead someone who sees dail…
The father looked to the refs, the zebras in their black-and-white-striped shirts, but there was no hand in the air, no signal at all that a penalty would be called.
