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Mantra: "Keeping to the Center, comatose; Keeping to the Center, not comatose." (One hypostatic manifestation of the Center being: https://neoscenes.net/blog/category/project/center-of-the-universe

The Ninth (Duino) Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke:

Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely

in the form of a laurel, slightly darker than all

other green, with tiny waves on the edges

of every leaf (like the smile of a breeze)—: why then

have to be human—and, escaping from fate,

keep longing for fate? …

[etc.]

Rainer Maria Rilke. “The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.” (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

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Thanks, Dr. J! what a fabulous quote from Rilke--a poem which I haven't spent much time with and now will read again and again, thank you!

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Thanks for the link to God is Bread. Made me laugh out loud. And I woke up my sleeping dog too! (Wait, it that a metaphor? 🤔)

Song: Vincent.

“And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now”

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yesssssss ... that song. it gets me every time.

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