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Beyond Logic to Poetry
When I talk about poetry I don’t think of it as a genre. Poetry is awareness of the world, a peculiar way of relating to reality. Thus poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man for life…. With poetry we are able to go beyond the limits of a coherent logic, and to convey the deep complexity and truth of the unpalatable connections and hidden phenomena of life.
— Andrei Tarkovsky, Carving Time (1994)
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Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don’t judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotions, observe the reaction. Don’t make a personal problem out of them.
You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.
— Eckhart Tolle, Practising the Power of Now
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When we pause, allow a gap and breathe deeply, we can experience instant refreshment. Suddenly, we slow down, look out, and there’s the world.
~ Pema Chodron
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
— Niels Bohr
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