Cities at daybreak are no one’s, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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