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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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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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