And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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The odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.
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Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
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But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
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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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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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