There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd now, advice for beginning mystics.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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