<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Upekkha</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Looking with dispassion, <br>with equanimity, <br>doesn't it shine brighter than a thousand suns? <br>The broken wing, <br>the severed finger, <br>the uncompleted life<br>'the smyler with the knife'<br>the smell of fear<br>spirochaetes, viruses and germs<br>and the ever-chewing sepulchral worms? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And don't we see a thousand times and more<br>that what we build and try to hold in place<br>disintegrates, vanishes without trace? <br>And what we hoard up<br>and try to store<br>provides a breeding ground for rats? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this which is the Past<br>is also Evermore? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what we cannot preserve here<br>when we have felt the betrayal of the breath<br>we save for heaven, <br>taking our joys and pains<br>across the no-man's land of death<br>and there, in finer, subtler, intellectual realms<br>plant our standards.<br>and still the Eternal, empty wind<br>blows them down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Taylor">Brian Taylor</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353510" data-title="Upekkha de Brian Taylor" data-description="Looking with dispassion, with equanimity, doesn't it shine brighter than a thousand suns? The broken wing, the severed finger, the uncompleted life 'the smyler with the knife' the smell of fear spirochaetes, viruses and germs and the ever-che..."></div> </div> </div>

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