<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589165" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Visions of grace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i’m looking for the face i had before the world was made<br>I was the primordial flaring forth, the gravitational waves, <br>the whirling galaxies, and the exploding supernovas that would become stars and planets. <br>I was the steaming planet Earth, the bacteria awash in the sea, <br>and the early eukaryotes and multicellular animals. <br>I exploded in the Cambrian explosion, stumbled onto land, <br>walked with dinosaurs, saw trees and flowers appear, walked upright in Africa, and walked on the moon. <br>I felt the embrace of gravity. I was one with all that had been and all that was to be. <br>I experienced subjective mystical communion with the evolutionary, emergent universe. I was the universe.<br>We know not where the journey leads, nor whether a final destination is even a meaningful concept. <br>The attraction is the inherent thrill of participating in a grand creative endeavor for which participation is its own reward.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexis+Karpouzos">Alexis Karpouzos</a> from <i>Deadline</i>, translated by Alexis Karpouzos<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=589165" data-title="Visions of grace de Alexis Karpouzos" data-description="i’m looking for the face i had before the world was made/I was the primordial flaring forth, the gravitational waves, /the whirling galaxies, and the exploding supernovas that would become stars and planets. /I was the steaming planet Earth, the..."></div> </div> </div>

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