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Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, left, listens to Archbishop Desmond Tutu speak as they take part in a dialogue on youth and spiritual connection in Seattle, Wash.

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past an image projection on Jerusalem’s old city walls ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover being celebrated on April 22 to 24th.

more on love…

From Michael Franti and Spearhead

One Step Closer to You

I’ve been down…
for far too long…
til my faith was nearly gone…
I never knew somebody just like you…
could be a friend I could call my own…
Til I let go of a broken heart…
I let go to an open heart…
I let go of my broken dreams…
I let go to the mystery and…
I believe in the miracle…
I believe in the spiritual…
I believe in the one above…
I believe in the one I love…
And take one step closer to you…
I just take one step closer to you…
Even when I’ve fallen down…
My heart says follow through…
I take one step closer to you
I never meant to hurt you no…
and you never meant to hurt me too…
but it seems like we always do…
and even though I’m scared sometimes…
If I ever see you fallin down…
I’ll be the one that’s there for you
Let go of a broken heart…
I let go to an open heart…
I let go of my broken dreams…
I let go to the mystery…
and I believe in the miracle…
I believe in the spiritual…
I believe in the one above…
I believe in the one I love
I’m walkin…
I keep on walkin to you…
say we walkin on the streets of life…
got to walk and talk with me right..Uh Huh
And I’m never gonna stop…
No… Keep on walkin sweet baby

I am turning to poetry… particularly expressions of love in it’s wildness. I am moved to share with y’all.

here’s some Rumi dear ones…

Gamble everything for love

On Gambling
To a frog that’s never left it’s pond the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he is giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. “I can’t really explain what it’s like where I live, but someday I’ll take you there.”

If you want what visible reality
can give, you’re an employee.

If you want the unseen world
you’re not living your truth.

Both wishes are foolish,
but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love’s confusing joy.

Gamble everything for love,
if your a true human being.

If not, leave
this gathering.

Half-heartedness doesn’t reach
into majesty. You set out to
find god, but then you keep
stopping for long periods.
at mean-spirited road houses.

In a boat down a fast-running creek,
it feels like the trees on the bank
are rushing by. What seems

to be changing around us
is rather the speed of our craft
leaving this world.

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A woman lights a fire beside an altar before praying at a village near Pingshi, China.

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An Iraqi Shiite attends evening prayers for Eid al-Ghadeer at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, south of Baghdad.

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A cultural procession of villagers and an elephant proceed to a temple to offer a part of their cinnamon crop to pagan gods in Hikkaduwa. Dancing to traditional drums behind an elephant draped in purple, Sri Lankan cinnamon growers are offering part of their crop to pagan gods in thanks at a steady recovery from the 2004 tsunami.

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Muslim pilgrims pray on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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A girl poses with a sheep in Algiers ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.