<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459509" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Like the lake a Chinese poet sits beside in a painting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who cares about<br>the weight of a lake? <br>Who would care to weigh it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who cares about<br>the colour of a lake<br>without the light of the sky<br>to reflect in it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who notices its modesty, <br>reflecting all, but silent of itself? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who observes that the lake<br>remains unaffected, <br>not pained by loss, <br>not pleased by gain? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who notices its wisdom, <br>obeying every law? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who names its generosity, <br>among the fish, the birds, <br>the animals who drink? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knows whether the tree<br>leaning over it, sees its own reflection? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who notices its love? <br>It bonds with earth, <br>It flows when needed, <br>as love does.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who asks where the lake came from, <br>seeing it there? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who wonders how old that lake is? <br>It is without age today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who wonders whether the lake<br>knows itself water, <br>or if water knows itself lake? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who does not go to seek it, <br>for its stillness, for its silence, <br>as if it understands the mind’s needs, <br>the heart’s nourishment? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is like that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459509" data-title="Like the lake a Chinese poet sits beside in a painting de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Who cares about the weight of a lake? Who would care to weigh it? Who cares about the colour of a lake without the light of the sky to reflect in it? Who notices its modesty, reflecting all, but silent of itself? Who observes that the lake..."></div> </div> </div>

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