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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.

Adam Zagajewski

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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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Darkness Greatness Life Madness Malice Outline Understand
As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane.
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Boson Dozen Entrapped Heatwave Hurricane Mind Raging Scorching Swirling Tropical Volcano Whirlwind
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Reply Sparrow Ubiquity
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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Blessing Create Energy Happiness Moment Movement Peak
And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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Advice Attitude Beginning Mystic Spiritual Writing
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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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All Asked Certain Continent Found Many Remarkable Sparrow Traveler Ubiquity
More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Firma Form More Ocean Terra
A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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Brillant Conflict Landscape Pain Poet Work
And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Ease Hahazard Labyrinthine Mind Tracing Varies Way
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Empire Insect Spread Summer
I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Curse Explain Need
Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
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Defend Experience Fashioned Loudly Notion Old Serenely Somebody Spiritual Value
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Drink Ocean Small Spring

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