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“Meditation is the action of silence.”
J. Krishnamurti

“Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch and move with it. In that watching you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.”
J. Krishnamurti

“To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.“
Thich Nhat Hanh

Past the curve in the road
Maybe there’s a pond and maybe there’s a castle,
And maybe it just keeps going.
I don’t know and I don’t even ask.
While I’m walking on the road before the curve,
I only look at the road before the curve,
Because I can’t see anything but the road before the curve.
It’d do me no good to look for the other side
And at something I can’t see.
Let’s only care about the place where we are.
There’s enough beauty in being here and not anywhere else.
If there’s someone past the curve in the road,
Let them worry about what’s past the curve in the road,
That’s what the road is to them.
If we have to get there, when we get there we’ll know.
For the time being all we know is, we’re not there.
Here there’s only the road before the curve, and before the curve
There’s only the road without any curve at all.

Alberto Caeiro (1914), in Detached Poems, translated by Chris Daniels.

Live, you say, in the present;
Live only in the present.

But I don’t want the present, I want reality;
I want things that exist, not time that measures them.

What is the present?
It’s something relative to the past and the future.
It’s a thing that exists by virtue of other things existing.
I only want reality, things without the present.

I don’t want to include time in my scheme of things.
I don’t want to think of things as present; I want to think of them as things.
I don’t want to separate them from themselves and think of them as present.

I shouldn’t even think of them as real.
I shouldn’t even think of them as anything.

I should see them, only see them;
See them till I can’t think about them,
See them without time or even space,
See, able to get rid of everything but what you see.
This is the science of seeing, which isn’t one at all.

Alberto Caeiro (1920), in Detached Poems, translated by Chris Daniels.

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