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Communication among individuals, between the individual and the world around is hemmed in, and one resists the agent that might open it. Again and again, the means come to a person's attention. Another's hurt, injustice, rejection, responded to in a way different from what would be expected assist in an opening, until the prison dissolves....

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A scanty sunlight falls through thin slits into the room. Its floor, walls, ceiling—stone, outside no sight of verdure, the dank earth below isolated, the piece of sky above cold, the air around desolate, the voice within untrusted— as the cry of one insane, the heart’s love disconnected by force diminutive ruling wide to raze the link of hope, poke out vision— for there to be none to lead out from deafening lies, beauty—this not— so deep the chasm, so sharp, so final the cut. ...

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1. Obscurity 2. Meeting 3. The Road 4. The Stranger

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الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أشرف خلقه محمد بن عبد الله وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين. أما بعد فإن الأحداث التأريخية التي مرت عبر الليالي والأيام إلى أعماق الماضي البعيد هي تجارب أفرزتها آلة الألم تارة وآلة النشوى أخرى وقد أعقبت للأجيال اللاحقة بذلك الركب دروساً ورسائل وعبر جديدة بالقراءة بعمق التفكير والتحليل والتدقيق والملاحقة لكل جزئيات الحدث والشمولية المستوعبة لكل مافات أهل القلم والذهاب إلى الماضي ومعايشة أهله ومعاشرتهم كي يمكن فهم ما حدث!. كي يؤخذ درس في الانتصار من هنا ودرس في أسباب الهزيمة من هناك ودرس في السعادة ودرس في الشقاء وهكذا. ومن أهم ما طرق الزمان من الحوادث والوقائع واقعة كربلاء التي تكمن أهميتها برجالها الذين قاموا بها ولاسيما عميدهم الحسين بن علي عليهما السلام. وقد إهتم أهل العلم بتدوين الأحداث التأريخية لحفظها بشتى أنواع المحافظة على التأريخ لاداء هذه الأمانة إلى الأجيال الآتية إلى يوم القيامة لذا تعددت ألوان الحفظ على التأريخ فبعض حافظ على الأثر المادي كالمراقد والمقامات والآثار والأطلال لمن سلف في سالف الأزمان وبعض دون ما حدث تارة بنثر وأخرى بقصة وثالثة بنظم وقد سلكنا طريق النظم بعد إشارة السيد العلامة محمد علي الحلو دامت افاضاته وكانت الفكرة منه فأشار إليّ أن أكتب أرجوزة تؤرخ لواقعة الطف وقد اعت...

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أبدأُ باسمِ ربّي الرحمنِ أعوذُ باللهِ من الشيطانِ أحمدُه على عظيم النعمة ولاية النبيّ والأئمة وصلّ يا ربّي على محمد وآله بني النبيّ الأمجد بأفضل الصلاةِ والسلامِ وذلك في البدء والختامِ فإنهم حقاً ولاةُ الأمرِ وفيهم (فاسألوا أهلَ الذكرِ) وفي الكتابِ نُعتوا بالعلمِ وبالعلاماتِ الهدى والنجمِ الشهدا والنورُ والآياتُ والخلفاءُ همُ والهداةُ في العلمِ إنهم لراسخونا المصطفَون همْ ووارثونا حقاً عليّ أنّه الطريقة والحقُّ معْه وهو الحقيقة بهذه الأخبارِ قد زيّنا كتابنَا بما لهم ذكرنا يا ربّنا فأحينا حياتَهم ثم أمتنا بعد ذا مماتهم فهذه مني إليهم مدْحة أرجو بها غداً أنال فرحة قال لنا سيدنا العلاّمة محمدٌ ما أطيبَ كلامه أن نكتب في مصرع الشهيدِ ابن النبيّ الطاهر الرشيد أرجوزة فيها نصوص المقتلِ جلية تبدو كصبحِ منجلي تؤرخ الأحداث والوقائع تتلو عليك أغرب الفظائع في سنة الواحد والستينا للهجرةِ فاقرأ وكن قمينا واقعة الطف بها موثقة تكون في أبياتها منمقّة نعتمدُ فيها على مجموعة من المقاتلِ على موسوعة من آل مكباسٍ فقد قام فتى بجمعها أكرم به بما أتى تؤرخ الواقعة بالهجري من واحد تاريخها للعشرِ وقال في الموسوعة المباركه ما كان في سفْرِه...

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المحتويات المقدمة 11 فهرس المقاتل الواردة في الموسوعة 17 القصيدة الميمية 21 ولادة الحسين عليه السلام 23 مدة حمل أمه به عليهما السلام 23 مولده عليه السلام 25 كنيته عليه السلام 26 لقبه عليه السلام 26 مدة إمامته عليه السلام 27 عدد أولاده عليه السلام وأسماؤهم 27 مبلغ عمره الشريف عليه السلام 28 تاريخ استشهاده عليه السلام 28 استحباب البكاء على الحسين عليه السلام وفضله 28 ثواب من شرب الماء وذكر الحسين عليه السلام ولعن قاتليه 31 الله تعالى والأنبياء عليهم السلام يلعنون قتلة الحسين عليه السلام 32 إخبار الملائكة جده صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم بقتله عليه السلام 33 تربة كربلاء عند رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم 33 ثواب بيت من الشعر في الحسين عليه السلام 34 حديث مسمع في فضل البكاء 34 إن الحسين عليه السلام قتيل العبرة 35 كل عين باكية يوم القيامة إلا عين بكت على الحسين بن علي عليهما السلام 35 بكاء جميع المخلوقات على الحسين عليه السلام 36 لم تبك السماء إلا على الحسين ويحيى بن زكريا عليهما السلام 37 بكاه عليه السلام جده وأبوه وأمه وبنوه عليهم السلام 37 بكاء علي بن الحسين على أبيه عليهما السلام 38 بكاء الرضا على الحسين عليهما السلام 38 ثلاثة لم يبكوا الحسين عليه السلام قط 38 بكاء الملائكة على الحسين عليه السلام 39 لماذا ي...

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Communication among individuals, between the individual and the world around is hemmed in, and one resists the agent that might open it. Again the means come to a person's attention. Another's hurt, injustice, rejection, responded to in a way different from what would be expected assist in an opening, until, at a given point, the prison dissolves....

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A scanty sunlight falls through thin slits into the room. Its floor, walls, ceiling—stone, outside no sight of verdure, the dank earth below isolated, the piece of sky above cold, the air around desolate, the voice within untrusted— as the cry of one insane, the heart’s love disconnected by force diminutive ruling wide to raze the link of hope, poke out vision— for there to be none to lead out from deafening lies, beauty—this not— so deep the chasm, so sharp, so final the cut. ...

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1. Obscurity 2. Meeting 3. The Road 4. The Stranger

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This is a collection of Filipino (with some English) poetry. Most of them don't have titles and may require some knowledge or information about Philippine society and culture. I have categorized these under the subject Religion primarily because many of the poems are Christian or even Catholic in nature although quite a number are reflections about life both personal and societal....

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Am căutat să zugrăvesc o icoană de cuvinte duhovniceşti. la care sper să poposească, ca la o troiţă aflată la la răspântii, cât mai multi drumeţi. Cartea "Poarta Raiului" am perceput-o ca un neîntrerupt poem, ca o chemare la rugăciune şi reculegere. În aceste vremuri de adâncă îngrijorare faţă de agresiunea învăţăturilor eretice, dreptmăritorii creştini vor găsi în smerita lucrare o portiţă care va sta mereu deschisă celor care vor să intre intru folosul sufletului....

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Epitaf 1 Poarta Raiului 2 Rugăciune către ingerul păzitor 4 Ascultă cum cânta Biserica Vie ! 5 Rugăciune bisericească ce se spune la necazuri şi supărări, în stihuri 8 Rugăciunea Sfântului Ciprian, în stihuri 10 Crăciun sfânt 15 E iaraşi Crăciunul 16 Rugăciunea Prodromiţa, în stihuri 18 Drumeţ pe cărarea rugăciunii 22 Rugăciune pentru ocrotire 23 Ocrotire 25 Înviere la dumnezeiasca liturghie bizantină 26 Nebănuite stihuri, cuvânt de colindă 28 Rugăciune la timp de boală, în stihuri 30 Stihuitorii lui Hristos 33 Haideţi să mai credem în Iisus Hristos! 35 Sfânta dreptmăritoare 37 Cuviosului 38 Mai cred copiii noştri într-o minune? 40 Noapte sfântă 42 Dulcea mea veşnicie 43...

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A further collection of the author's original poetry.

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Sacred Process Names Nature and Form Silence From Beyond Tongue Body Real Mind No Less The Temple One Flower Re-union Origin Aesthetics. History Truth Love-Song Earth, A Bird The Presence Of Light Clear Ground Listener To Winds Eternal Presence Core Shard From One Beginning An Age Metamorphoses It Will Once And Always This, I Fire-Thoughts Open Secret Night-Hour Glimpse Days Flow Violence Heart-Slopes In Time Canzon Strange Clearing Index Of First Lines...

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The Song of Songs [of Solomon] (שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים Šîr haŠîrîm, ᾎσμα ᾎσμάτων Aisma Aismatōn, Cantĭcum Canticōrum) is a poetic courtship that moves from enchantment to consummation. Devoid of religiosity, it has traditionally been understood as metaphor for the relationship of the soul with the Divine – of God with Israel – of Christ with the Church – of Christ with the human soul – or humanistically, as a metaphor for psychological integrity. In his 12th century sermon, ‘On the Title of the Book: The Song of Songs’, St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s meditative reading followed the book of Ecclesiastes, which teaches ‘how to … have done with the false promise of this world’, and the book of Proverbs that enlightens ‘your life and your conduct’. He called these two preliminary books antidotes to the two enemies of the soul – ‘misguided love of the world and an excessive love of self’, and he observed that only ‘the mind disciplined by persevering study’ is made ‘ripe … for nuptial union with the divine partner’. His spiritual marriage between the heavenly Bridegroom and the human bride occurs when the two become one, and that one is the ...

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A wise man once set down in song, beauty that in nature rests, for which all hearts forever long like dreams deep in maidens’ breasts : The young woman: “My man, your kiss is my mantle your musk clothes me with alarm, allows my guard be more gentle. Oh, who could resist such charm! Oh, let’s elope to foreign parts, and reveal to me your realm; there let us practice lovers’ arts for we’ll both be overwhelmed. Yes, no one could resist such charm! Sisters of our sober town, You see my skin so sunned from farm, its like a richly gilded gown – a noble robe gifting my hue. Though born beyond your boudoir, underneath I’m the same as you. Why look down on my colour, ...

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The author has completed his own translation of the Divine Comedy and finds that it is still hard for readers to manage the whole text. He has extracted what he feels is the main spiritual thread and worked with key passages. He has then given the original Italian alongside his translation into English and provided a narrative thread and annotations for clarity. Included in this edition is a talk he gave to the Summer School at the University of Cape Town Summer School on Misunderstanding Dante....

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INFERNO V They enter the second circle, the first of Hell proper, which encloses less space, (che men loco cinghia), than the previous one, but has so much greater pain, (tanto più dolor). Minos, the judge, guards the entrance, examines all the souls who are to enter and indicates to them to which circle they will descend. Cosi discesi del cerchio primaio And so I left the first, and to the second giù nel secondo, che men loco cinghia circle went below, where girth is less, e tanto più dolor, che pugne a guaio. but greater are the howls and moans of woe....

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Misunderstanding Dante Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso

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The Song of Songs [of Solomon] (שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים Šîr haŠîrîm, ᾎσμα ᾎσμάτων Aisma Aismatōn, Cantĭcum Canticōrum) is a poetic courtship that moves from enchantment to consummation. Devoid of religiosity, it has traditionally been understood as metaphor for the relationship of the soul with the Divine – of God with Israel – of Christ with the Church – of Christ with the human soul – or humanistically, as a metaphor for psychological integrity....

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The young man: He replied: “Where I go you know, our love will lead my queen’s feet, to where paradise overflows – in plenty we’ll be replete. For you my mistress are to men as mare to noble stallion, hair bejewels your neck as a mane, bridled by golden garland.” The young woman: And thus sparked, the lady replied: “From scent you sense my presence and at the couch where you recline it moulds your manly essence. Nesting all night my breasts between like bunchéd blooms of henna ’midst verdant vines kissed by sea’s sheen you’re more to me than all men are.” ...

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