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@sagefriedman on Unspalsh

I think of the Zen Masters, after having lost themselves in Satori for the first time, bursting with spontaneous smiles, laughter, in the world’s joy. At the moment of enlightenment, the newly enlightened ones, at one with the moment, smile or laugh. And then the damndest thing—they write poetry or draw perfect circles near the water at low tide and laugh at you when you try to build castle walls to preserve that precious, infinitesimal moment. I mean, what is there to say in that moment? They laugh and go off into the misty mountains.

Ben Leichtling

On This Day…

Pablo Neruda born in Chile in 1904, died 1973: poet, diplomat and politician – author of many volumes of poetry
Quotes: “I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.” “Love is short, forgetting so long.” “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.”