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You cannot hear God when people are chattering at you.
Somehow this passage hit home for me as I read The End of Solitude by William Deresiewicz in a recent edition of the Chonicle Review. Lately, I’ve experienced a sort of yearning to be alone, with my own thoughts, without interruption or interference, to go on [...]
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Words
I don’t take your words
Merely as words
Far from it.
I listen
To what makes you talk -
whatever that is-
And me listen.
Shinkichi Takahashi (Zen poet).
For me, Zen poetry (all poetry) brings the things unseen in everyday life into sharp focus. There is a power in the things unseen that can’t be measured, evaluated, planned [...]
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Lately…
cindyu
