Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action. 
The beloved Buddhist monk reminds us to end all striving; to simply kiss the earth with our feet.
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