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\u003ci\u003eTao Te Ching      \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chandaka, Two Cosmologies               \u003cbr\u003e Vyasa, from the \u003ci\u003eBhagavad Gita              \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lucretius, from \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Things          \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Virgil, from \u003ci\u003eThe Aeneid                  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shenoute, ‘Homily’                    \u003cbr\u003e Sengcan, ‘The Mind of Absolute Trust’          \u003cbr\u003e From the Quran                      \u003cbr\u003e Kakinomoto Hitomaro, ‘In praise of Empress Jitō’    \u003cbr\u003e Li Po, ‘Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon’        \u003cbr\u003e Rabi’a al-Basri, ‘O my lord’             \u003cbr\u003e Ono No Komachi, ‘This inn’               \u003cbr\u003e Hanshan, ‘Hanshan’s Poem’               \u003cbr\u003e Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh, ‘Names of the Lion’                   \u003cbr\u003e Unknown, Anglo-Saxon charm              \u003cbr\u003e Izumi Shikibu, ‘Things I Want Decided’          \u003cbr\u003e Li Qingzhao, ‘Late Spring’                 \u003cbr\u003e Hildegard of Bingen, ‘Song to the Creator’        \u003cbr\u003e Mahadeviyakka, ‘I do not call it his sign’          \u003cbr\u003e Attar of Nishapur, ‘Parable of the Dead Dervishes in the Desert’                      \u003cbr\u003e St Francis of Assisi, ‘Canticle of the Sun’         \u003cbr\u003e Wumen Huikai, from \u003ci\u003eThe Gateless Gate          \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rūmī, ‘Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven’       \u003cbr\u003e Mechthild of Magdeburg, ‘Of all that God has shown me’                        \u003cbr\u003e Saadi Shirazi, ‘The Grass Cried Out’           \u003cbr\u003e Thomas Aquinas, ‘Lost, All in Wonder’          \u003cbr\u003e Moses de León, from \u003ci\u003eThe Sepher Zohar         \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dante Alighieri, from \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, Canto III        \u003cbr\u003e from the \u003ci\u003eSundiata                    \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hafez, Ghazal 17                     \u003cbr\u003e Yaqui people, ‘Deer Song’               \u003cbr\u003e Nezahualcoyotl, ‘The Painted Book’          \u003cbr\u003e Kabir, ‘Brother, I’ve seen some’          \u003cbr\u003e Mirabai, ‘O friend, understand’             \u003cbr\u003e Yoruba people, from \u003ci\u003eA Recitation of Ifa         \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Teresa of Ávila, ‘Laughter Came from Every Brick’\u003cbr\u003e Gaspara Stampa, ‘Deeply   repentant of my sinful ways’\u003cbr\u003e St John of the Cross, ‘O Love’s living flame’\u003cbr\u003e Mayan people, from the \u003ci\u003ePopol Vuh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Marlowe, from \u003ci\u003eFaustus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146\u003cbr\u003e John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three-person’d God’\u003cbr\u003e Nahuatl people, ‘The Midwife Addresses the Woman’\u003cbr\u003e George Herbert, ‘Easter Wings’\u003cbr\u003e Walatta Petros\/Gälawdewos, 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