Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing that makes water,
and nobody knows what that is.

–D. H. Lawrence



Showing posts with label Kabir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kabir. Show all posts

Thursday, February 3, 2022

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I have been thinking of the difference between 
water and the waves on it. 
Rising, water's still water, 
falling back, it is water, 
will you give me a hint how to tell them apart? 

Because someone has made up the word 
"wave," 
do I have to distinguish it from water? 

There is a Secret One inside us; 
the planets in all the galaxies pass through 
his hands like beads.

That is a string of beads one should look at 
with luminous eyes. 


—Kabir


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Saturday, December 4, 2021

questions

  





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I have been thinking of the difference between water 
and the waves on it. 

Rising, 
water's still water, falling back,
it is water, will you give me a hint 
how to tell them apart? 

Because someone has made up the word 
"wave," do I have to distinguish it from water? 

There is a Secret One inside us; 
the planets in all the galaxies 
pass through his hands like beads.

That is a string of beads one should look at 
with luminous eyes. 


—Kabir 


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