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Love means to learn to look at yourself<\/span>
The way one looks at distant things<\/span>
For you are only one thing among many.<\/span>
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,<\/span> Without knowing it, from various ills<\/span>
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.<\/span>
Then he wants to use himself and things<\/span>
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.<\/span>
It doesn\u2019t matter whether he knows what he serves:<\/span>
Who serves best doesn\u2019t always understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Czeslaw Milosz<\/a><\/p>\n

thank you, Authentic Threads<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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