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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476957" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The World Is Only As Big</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is only as big <br>as the size of the life going on in me.<br>If I wanted to take the full measure of the sky <br>what could that be <br>compared to the lightyears it takes <br>to get from one side of my mind to the other? <br>And look how huge the darkness is <br>that can be cast by one star <br>like the negative of its shining.<br>And what road has anyone walked <br>that was ever longer than their shadow? <br>Eternity's just another way of saying <br>you've run out of space for time.<br>I don't think I'm going to live forever <br>but my life will go on without me <br>just as it always has. <br>I'll get up in the morning <br>like the ghost of someone I can't remember <br>and I'll have a coffee and a cigarette <br>as I wait for the obscurity to clear <br>like steam on a bathroom mirror<br>to see if I can recognize <br>anything about me <br>that was true yesterday. <br>Will I feel as I do now like a leftover <br>from the night before <br>pushed to the side of the plate <br>as everything in the room <br>reviles me slightly<br>and gets back to the silence <br>they were engaged in <br>before I interrupted them so impolitely<br>I smeared their meditation<br>with my intrusive incoherence? <br>They all seem to be waiting <br>for someone to make an appearance <br>but it definitely isn't me. <br>It's beautiful outside <br>but when I look<br>I'm always looking at the beauty <br>of someone else's bride <br>and I turn away like night from the orchard<br>as if I were always the best man<br>at the wedding of Adam and Eve.<br>Eden. <br>In clay-bound Sumer<br>from the word Edin<br>meaning the southern marshes <br>of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers<br>whose mouths were always full of food<br>and the living was easy and good. <br>Same garden.<br>Same tree. <br>Same apple.<br>Same suggestive serpent.<br>But I've always understood <br>from the first bite<br>of self-knowledge <br>the baffled man in me <br>eats the apple to know things <br>about the lucid woman in me <br>who eats it to grow wings on a snake<br>to raise that up high <br>which has been cast down low.<br>Now all gods and dragons are estranged oxymorons <br>and Nicholas of Cusa's Coincidence of the Contradictories<br>is the yin and yang <br>the lingham and yoni <br>of a grand biodynamic plan<br>to sow clarity in the heart of confusion <br>to see what kind of chaos we can make of it<br>that might randomly advance <br>the creative mischance of evolution<br>happening everywhere the same <br>to everyone all at once.<br>Though to think it has balance and purpose<br>is to build two retaining walls <br>in the corner of the one dunce. <br>It's the kind of war <br>where you go to peace against the other<br>and there's a commotion <br>in the heart of the stillness <br>that is distinctly human. <br>Something stirring <br>about the enduring effect <br>of love and compassion <br>when it happens without a cause<br>and the mirrors don't look through the laws <br>of iron bars <br>like skies in captivity<br>deprived of stars in their solitude<br>or words to lighten the mood.<br>Of course it's absurd. <br>Life's only playing at being serious<br>and a childlike madness<br>a crazy wisdom<br>that isn't imperiously innocent<br>of its own experience<br>is the only way to express<br>the lucid triviality of what's sublime<br>about its creativity <br>like stars in the daytime <br>lost in the lightless depths <br>of an expansive mind<br>that's come to the limit of things<br>like a Martian rover<br>by realizing <br>there's no edge to go over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+White">Patrick White</a><div class=q>
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as the size of the life going on in me.
If I wanted to take the full measure of the sky 
what could that be 
compared to the lightyears it takes 
to get from one side of my mind to the other? 
And look how huge the darkne..."></div>
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