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Life is a matter of a miracle
that is collected over time...
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by moments flabbergasted
to be in each other's presence.
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The world is an exam to see if we can
rise into the direct experiences.
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Our eyesight is here as a test
to see if we can see beyond it.
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Matter is here as a test
for our curiosity.
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Doubt is here as an exam
for our vitality.
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Thomas Mann wrote that he would
rather participate in life...
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than write
a hundred stories.
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Giacometti was once
run down by a car,
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and he recalled
falling into a lucid faint,
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a sudden exhilaration,
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as he realized at last
something was happening to him.
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An assumption develops that
you cannot understand life
and live life simultaneously.
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I do not agree entirely. Which is
to say I do not exactly disagree.
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I would say that life
understood is life lived.
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But the paradoxes bug me,
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and I can learn to love
and make love...
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to the paradoxes
that bug me.
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And on really romantic
evenings of self,
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I go salsa dancing
with my confusion.
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Before you drift off,
don't forget.
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Which is to say,
remember.
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Because remembering is so much more
a psychotic activity than forgetting.
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Lorca in that
same poem said...
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that the iguana will bite those
who do not dream.
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And as one realizes...
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that one
is a dream figure...
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in another person's dream,
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that is self-awareness.