One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
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Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
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