between i am and you are

   

  

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By itself nothing has existence. 

Everything needs its own absence. 

To be is to be distinguishable, to be here and not there,

to be now and not then, to be thus and not otherwise. 

Like water is shaped by the container, so is everything 

determined by conditions (gunas).

—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Between now and now

between I am and you are

the word bridge

Entering it

you enter yourself;

the world connects and closes like a ring.

From one bank to another

there is always a body stretched:

a rainbow.

I'll sleep between its arches.

—Octavio Paz

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