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Find A Stillness
02:08
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Find a stillness, hold a stillness, let the stillness carry me
Find the silence, hold the silence, let the silence carry me
In the spirit, by the spirit, with the spirit giving power,
I will find true harmony
Seek the essence, hold the essence, let the essence carry me
Let me flower, help me flower, watch me flower, carry me
In the spirit, by the spirit, with the spirit giving power
I will find true harmony.
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Amor Caelestis
01:58
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Amor Caelestis/Celestial Love
Ego aurea porta in celo fixa sum.
Qui per me transit numquam amaram petulantiam
In mente sua gustabit
I am the golden door, fixed in the sky.
Whoever passes through me will never taste the bitterness of a petulant mind
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Castitas
01:34
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Castitas/Chastity
O virginitas, in regali thalamo stas.
O quam dulciter ardes in amblexibus Regis,
Cum te sol perfulget, itta quod nobilis flos tuus numquam cadet
O virgo nobilis te numquam inveniet umbra in cadente flore
O Virginity, standing in the royal bedchamber
How sweetly you burn in the arms of the king.
It’s as if the sun shines through you, so your noble flower never fades.
Noble Virgin, your blossom will never fall into shadow
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Cradle The Earth
01:39
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O my sudden love, O love of ages: Heal the wars in us. Cradle the earth.
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Song of Songs
04:02
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For lo, it is the springtime of the year. Winter rains are over and gone.
The time of singing birds is here. Arise my darling; my beautiful one.
I am dark and lovely as the blossoming vine. The open lily’s fragrance is my breath
My sweet love is headier than wine. River waters wash my verdant bed
And he comes bounding o’er the hills,
and here he stands at my wall, calling like the dove.
Refresh me with apples, dear, for I am faint, I am faint with love,
I am faint with love.
He is rooted deeply as the cedar tree. Silken curls as black as raven wings
His skin; a scent of wood, and smooth, as alabaster.
His words are kisses, and his kisses sing
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Karitas Habundat
02:37
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Karitas Habundat / Love lives in Everything
Karitas habundat in omnia, de imis excellentissima super sidera,
atque amantissima in omnia, quia summo Regi osculum pacis dedit.
Love is alive in everything; from the deepest depths to beyond the stars..
Fully loving in everything, for she has given the highest King
the kiss of Peace
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Misericordia
01:47
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Misericordia / Mercy)
O quam amara est illa duricia que non cedit in mentebus
Misericorditer dolori succurens
Ego autem omnibus dolentibus. Manum porrigere volo
O how bitter is the hardness of the mind that will not soften
I want to reach out my hand to all who suffer, and give succor
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The Waters
04:46
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Beside the flowing river that in Babylon I found,
I sat down with my weeping, watering the foreign ground.
I remember you, Zion: My heartland that I love so well,
The sweetness of memory increasing as the tears fell.
I took off my fancy clothes, and plucked away the rose that I wore.
By the hanging willows green: I hung up my music, I put away my song, I hung up my music for so long.
For you my own life has died, and in you is newly born.
By the memory of you, life is given and withdrawn.
Will you call me home my Lord? Will my life in exile be
Fastened to the rock of Jesus
He for whom I cast my life away?
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The Thread Unseen
02:30
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I knew the world, I was not known; My seed was good, I was not sown.
My thread was cut, it was not spun: And as I live, my life is done.
Yet in my death: My deepest reverie; a silver thread, if silver be.
The broken promise of eternity holds to my breast the thread unseen.
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Noli Timere
02:12
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Noli Timere / Don’t be Afraid
Noli timere nec fugere, quia pastor bonus querit
In te perditam ovem suam
Don’t be afraid, or run away. The Good Shepherd is looking for His lost sheep.
It is you
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The More I Love
02:51
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I wish to be your loving child. I wish to sing with you the secret of the heart
In time I will sing this infinite feeling:
The more I love the more I love the more I love.
And you can be exactly who you are. Then you are free to set the world on fire.
Cry to the sun in all of your voices:
The more we love the more we love the more we love
Heart of roses; Lover, mine,
Love is the band that circles my finger:
The more we love the more we love the more we love
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Garden
03:22
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O I have made, within my own body; a garden for you to enter.
My love is old, born in the winter; frozen, reflecting the sun.
When the winter unwinds, I come undone.
O I have made, within my own body; a garden for you to enter,
And I await the greening of the springtime.
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The Vanishing One
01:59
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If you can command this stone, can you fulfill your longing?
My dream is done in the morning. I am the vanishing one.
Mountains of shimmering gold: Can you fulfill your longing?
My dream is done in the morning. I am the vanishing one
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Mary Oh
02:08
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I am not the gardener, but I am the fisher of man, and I am,
I am your friend. I am your friend.
And you free me, because you can see me,
And I leave you now, but I will come again.
This is the place where we part: Not in spirit, but in this body's journey
And there’s a boat in my heart where we sail,
where we sail, where we sail; always.
Mary. Mary, Oh
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Ego Humilitas, Regina virtutum dico: Venite ad me, virtutes, et enutriam vos
Ad requirendam perditam drachmam et ad coronandum in perseverantia felicem
I am Humility, Queen of the virtues, and I say:
Come with me, and I will give you the nourishment
You need to find the lost treasure
And crown the one who perseveres with bliss
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In the fountain of the spring, you play the song that carries me
And when the winter wind does howl, you play the song that carries me
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Be Thou my Vision
02:12
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Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best thought, by day or by night
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light
Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart
High Love of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art
High Love of Heaven, my victory won
May I reach Heaven’s joys, bright as the Sun
Heart of my own heart, whate’er befall
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all
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Robin O'Brien Santa Rosa, California
Eclectic mix of recordings; mostly lo-fi. I've been a closet home-taper, recording my music since before multitrack was
available to us common folk at home. It's my joy.
George Reisch re-imagined some of these tunes, and you can find them at Luxotone.com
recordings by Jean Farmer and I are at notan.org
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