And now, advice for beginning mystics.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIA brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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