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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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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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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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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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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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