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There he was, in his cabin, removed from the world, not to renounce it, but to see it better.
from On Poets and Others
by Octavio Paz
on the occasion of his meeting
with the poet Robert Frost
The wisdom of the Veda is that everything is a coming together, that each episode of life is an opportunity to love. The lessons of life before meditation often have taught us the need for judgment and separation, a defining of ourselves by who is against us as much as by who is for us. The experience of being a human is the dance back and forth between the two. We step into life, we step back from life, we regroup; and we insist on reminding ourselves that in is the ultimate answer. That those thoughts and opinions and ideas that tell us different probably came from someone else, and perhaps it is time to examine some of them a bit more closely. And to step back for a moment to do this is a part of the process.
Today, if I have thoughts of separation and judgment, I will ask myself if these thoughts fit into my philosophy of life; and if they don't, I will open myself to correcting them and give myself a moment to consider how.
mural de Diego Rivera
en la Secretaría de la Enseñanza Pública
en Ciudad de México
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