And now, advice for beginning mystics.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd now, advice for beginning mystics.
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What’s astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter’s perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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And also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can’t understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
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