of the bone and of snow

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The present is motionless

The mountains are of the bone and of snow

They have been here since the beginning

The wind has just been borne

Ageless

As the light and the dust

A windmill of sounds

The bazaar spins its colours

Bells, motors, radios

The stony trot of dark donkeys

Songs and complaints intangled

The tall light chiselled with hammer-strokes

In the clearance of silence

Boy’s circles

Explode

Princess in tattered clothes

On the bank of the tortured river

Pray pee mediate

The

present is motionless

The floodgates of the years open

Days flash

out

Agate

~ Octavio Paz

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>From our perception of the world there follows acceptance of a unique

First Principle possessing various powers. Pictures of name and form,

the person who sees, the screen on which he sees, and the light by

which he sees: he himself is all of these.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Relative knowledge pertains to the mind and not to the Self. It is

therefore illusory and not permanent. Take a scientist, for

instance. He formulates a theory that the Earth is round and goes on

to prove it on an incontrovertible basis. When he falls asleep the

whole idea vanishes; his mind is left a blank. What does it matter

whether the world remains round or flat when he is asleep? So you

see the futility of all such relative knowledge. One should go

beyond relative knowledge and abide in the Self. Real knowledge is

such experience, and not apprehension by the mind.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, "Talks with Ramana Maharshi"

LoveAlways,

Mazie