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LET THIS DARKNESS BE A BELL TOWER 
 
Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,
what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.
In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.
And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.
 
--RAINER MARIA RILKE
Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29

 

Out Beyond Ideas
 
Out beyond ideas 
of wrongdoing and rightdoing, 
there is a field. 
 
I'll meet you there. 
 
When the soul lies down 
in that grass, 
the world is too full to talk about. 
 
Ideas, language 
- even the phrase "each other" - 
do not make any sense.
 
--Rumi

 

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