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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459838" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mind's Polarities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s said – and so it seems to be – <br>that when the individual mind <br>emerges from that place where mind <br>rests, perfect, and in unity with all things to be known – <br>in that place, which is; within us, and without us: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that in that moment, as the mind expands, <br>and as its sphere within expands to match that sphere without, <br>polarities arise; such axis as may join them <br>to lie hidden and forgot; instead we see <br>all as remotenesses, that grow ever more the farther; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then – the aweful nature of the human lie – <br>name them ‘opposites’… and in that step, <br>a further one, ‘duality’… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and so, condemn ourselves to fruitless life <br>where, across the vast mind’s sphere, <br>sadness – let’s say – sees, far off, that pure happiness - <br>too far, too far, to be within its reach… <br>and happiness, seeing far off, sadness, seeks in pleasure <br>to keep its distance…and so, the balance swings, <br>the world wags, and the mind knows only restlessness… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and knows, desire… how we forget, <br>we could not know desire, but that we knew <br>what desire desires; what’s missing in our world; <br>sadness, knowing the happiness; what would sadness be <br>without its knowing, in full, its happiness? .. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">if we but saw desire as grace; looked at it with clear eye; <br>we might see, lurking there within, <br>beyond the warnings of its waywardness, <br>that holy thing that yearns alway for onefulness… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and as we have departed, <br>then by grace, so we return; <br>find by that third perfect point; <br>that eye that sees, from its eternal home, <br>duality to resolve in unity.. <br>and all absolved, we’re absolute.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this, by mine own hand… writ <br>in a deep yearning sadness; <br>sadness that would fain convince itself <br>that happiness, this morning, is too distant; so, then, <br>to abide in sorrowed sadness… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and yet, there are strange joys, <br>where sadness meets all other things, in duty and in law; <br>speaks of all things in some strange disguise; <br>finds its heart, where heart it never sought; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and so, if words may do <br>what words should do, I name this poem’s end <br>its true beginning: name it now, <br>dedicating it, to truth and joy, and to myself: <br>A Poem in Praise of Happiness.</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>
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emerges from that place where mind 
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in that place, which is; within us, and without us: 

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