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My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking

My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.

Leonard Cohen

Heart, Night, Sky

Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.31, McClelland & Stewart

It doesn't matter how anything happens.

Leonard Cohen

Matter, Happens

Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.25, Emblem Editions

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

Leonard Cohen

Loneliness, Feelings, Holy

Song: Sisters Of Mercy, 1967

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Leonard Cohen

Years, Sea, Drowning

Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.48, Emblem Editions

And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way

Leonard Cohen

Brother, Missing, Forgiving

Song: Famous Blue Raincoat

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Leonard Cohen

Torches, Guilty, Dear

Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

G-d is alive. Magic is afoot. G-d is afoot. Magic is alive.

Leonard Cohen

Magic, Alive

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

Leonard Cohen

Love, Betrayal, Sleep

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

Leonard Cohen

Grief, Anxiety, Suffering

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

Leonard Cohen

Want, Lovers, Kind

Song: I'm Your Man, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all the songs about love and all the movies and all the books, there doesn't seem to be any way that we can prepare the human heart for this experience.