the invisible next

 

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She lets the confused stay confused

if that is what they want
and is always available
to those with a passion for the truth.

In the welter of opinions,
she is content with not-knowing.

She makes distinctions
but doesn’t take them seriously.

She sees the world constantly breaking
apart, and stays centered in the whole.

She sees the world endlessly changing
and never wants it to be
different from what it is.

—Chuang-tzu

Stephen Mitchell adaptation

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What we have, and all we will have, is here in the earthly paradise. How to wring music from it, how to squeeze light out of it, is, as it has always been, the only true question.

I’d say that to love the visible things in the visible world is to love their apokatastatic outline in the invisible next.


—Charles Wright
from an interview by J.D. McClatchy
The Art of Poetry XLI

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Be mindful of your self-talk.

It is a conversation with the universe.

—David James Lees

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