Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIThis coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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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 also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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.
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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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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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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