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A chaikhana is a teahouse along the legendary Silk Road pilgrimage and trading route linking China to the Middle East and Europe. It is a place of rest along the journey, a place to shake off the dust of the road, to sip tea, and to gather together to sing songs of the Divine...



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by Stephen Levine

 

There is a grace approaching
that we shun as much as death,
it is the completion of our birth.

It does not come in time,
     but in timelessness
when the mind sinks into the heart
and we remember.

It is an insistent grace that draws us
to the edge and beckons us to surrender
safe territory and enter our enormity.

We know we must pass
     beyond knowing
and fear the shedding.

But we are pulled upward
     none-the-less
through forgotten ghosts
     and unexpected angels,
luminous.

And there is nothing left to say
but we are That.

And that is what we sing about.

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-- from Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace, by Stephen Levine

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