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#4340 -
Monday, August 15, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into
ourselves that it
will resurrect within our being.
—Rilke, excerpt from a letter to Witold Hulewicz, November
13, 1925
by Christine Wushke on Facebook
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Hope
Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all things you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked at from a gate.
You cannot enter. But you're sure it's there.
Could we but look more clearly and wisely
We might discover somewhere in the garden
A strange new flower and an unnamed star.
Some people say we should not trust our eyes,
That there is nothing, just a seeming,
These are the ones who have no hope.
They think that the moment we turn away,
The world, behind our backs, ceases to exist,
As if snatched up by the hands of thieves.
~ Czeslaw Milosz ~
(The World)
Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/Hope_Milosz.html
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By letting go our fascination with the extraordinary and
spectacular, we
can allow ourselves to recognize the simple wonder that lies
within the
ordinary.
For life is its own purpose and doesn't need a reason to be. That
is its
beauty.
~ Tony Parsons
Along The Way
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Searching through intellectual knowledge for the true Light is
like a man
lost in tunnels under the earth... the deeper he journeys the
darker it
becomes...
~ Rumi
by Melitta Kelly on Facebook
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"The less conscious one is of being 'a writer,' the better
the writing."
— Pico Iyer
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Keeping Quiet
By Pablo Neruda
(1904 - 1973)
English version by Alastair Reid
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth
let's not speak in any language,
let's stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.