Refuse to Stay Down

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Refuse to fall down.

If you cannot refuse to fall down,

refuse to stay down.

If you cannot refuse to stay down,

lift your heart toward heaven,

and like a hungry beggar,

ask that it be filled, and it will be filled.

You may be pushed down.

You may be kept from rising.

But no one can keep you from

lifting your heart toward heaven.

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Equality and The Vision of God

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Nobody appears inferior to us

when our heart is kindled with kindness

and our eyes are open to the

Vision of God.

Bowl of Saki, June 7, by Hazrat Inayat Khan