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Prayer with devotion

Better a little prayer with devotion than much prayer without devotion.

You are not obligated to complete the work

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief.Do justly, now.Love mercy, now.Walk humbly, now.You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

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Beauty is before me
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Above and below me hovers the beautiful
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