[MD] kill all intellectual patterns
Horse
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Fri Nov 23 04:21:33 PST 2012
Marsha
Please tell me how this is about Robert Pirsig's MoQ!!!
Horse
On 23/11/2012 09:51, MarshaV wrote:
>
> Archaic Torso of Apollo
>
> by Rainer Maria Rilke
> translated by Stephen Mitchell
>
> We cannot know his legendary head
> with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
> is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
> like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
>
> gleams in all its power. Otherwise
> the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
> a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
> to that dark center where procreation flared.
>
> Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
> beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
> and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:
>
> would not, from all the borders of itself,
> burst like a star: for here there is no place
> that does not see you. You must change your life.
>
> _____________
>
>
> Reminds me:
>
>
> "Causes and results are infinite in number and variety. Everything
> affects everything. In this universe, when one thing changes,
> everything changes. Hence the great power of man in changing
> the world by changing himself."
> (Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
>
>
>
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