Joy is a piercing desire

Joy is a piercing desire, a mystical longing both painful and sweet: a kind of homesick-ness for a home we scarcely remember.

~ Deborah Smith Douglas, in Weavings, XV:4

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For God
To make love,
For the divine alchemy to work,
The Pitcher needs a still cup.

~ Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky in THE GIFT