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The Need to Win by Chuang Tzu When an archer is shooting for nothing He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets --- He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize Divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning Than of shooting --- And the need to win Drains him of power. Translated from the Chinese by Thomas Merton Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. www.danawyss.com
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Utterance by W.S. Merwin Sitting over words very late I have heard a kind of whispered singing not far like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark the echo of everything that has ever been spoken still spinning its one syllable between the earth and silence - from A Book of Luminous Things edited by Czeslaw Milosz Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. www.danawyss.com  Image / Leonid Tit
Witness by Denise Levertov Sometimes the mountain is hidden from me in veils of cloud, sometimes I am hidden from the mountain in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue, when I forget or refuse to go down to the shore or a few yards up the road, on a clear day, to reconfirm that witnessing presence. - from A Book of Luminous Things edited by Czeslaw Milosz Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. www.danawyss.com  Image/ Benoit Daoust
The Meaning of Simplicity by Yannis Ritsos I hide myself behind simple objects so you may find me, if you do not find me, you will find the objects, you will touch those objects my hand has touched the traces of our hands will mingle. The August moon gleams like a tin kitchen kettle (what I am telling you becomes like that), it lights the empty table and silence kneeling in the house silence is always kneeling. Every single word is an exodus for a meeting, cancelled many times, it is a true word when it insists on the meeting. - Translated by Rae Dalven Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. www.danawyss.com  Image / Natalia Romanova
"And for what, except for you, do I feel love? Do I press the extremest book of the wisest man Close to me, hidden in me day and night? In the uncertain light of single, certain truth, Equal in living changingness to the light In which I meet you, in which we sit at rest, For a moment in the central of our being, The vivid transparence that you bring is peace." - Wallace Stevens, from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. http://www.danawyss.com/ |
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