Is it quite astonishing few people know the secret meaning of Passover?”
They live in relation to this story as an archetype every day of their lives. So you wake up in the morning and you look in the mirror, and you say, “Ah. Here I am! Estelle. I’ve got my whole identity with me.” But if I take the time, as I did before this interview, to just sit down, close my eyes, say a prayer, open myself to spirit, then my identity begins to expand, and I remember that I’m not just Estelle, the personality, that I’m a soul, that I’m an embodiment of the Divine, and I move from what Jewish mystics say is “small mind” to “big mind.” And in that other state, the bonds of the self, the small identity that limits us and dictates who we think we are, it frees up — it’s sort of like a zooming out that you would do with a camera, but it’s zooming out all the way to infinity, all the way to eternity, beyond time, beyond space. And in that moment of deep meditation, or prayer, anything becomes possible, because you are rising above the workings of time. Is that just a mental
I know that God doesn’t exist. That’s written everywhere in the storehouse—it can be made out through the portholes, too. I know that after death there’s nothing but death. 20. I know that, seen from the border between language and the world, the universe is in increasing entropy. But I no longer know what it is if I climb to the top of a tree (one of these trees on the border between language and the world), from where you can see far into language and far into the world at the same time. 21. Because I have scaled a tree, I know that beyond language is a huge plain, with dark flowers and little mazy footpaths. – As number three says, “Toute pensée, pour prendre corps, doit ménager sa part de flou.” Hey, good advice for poets! 04.13.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (67) This entry was posted on Monday, April 13th, 2009 at 12:01 pm and is filed under Poetry magazine, Politics, Translation, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a respons
