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<\/a><\/p>\n\u2026As in dreams<\/em><\/div>\n
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behind high doors there is nothing,<\/em><\/div>\n
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not even emptiness.<\/em><\/div>\n
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As in dreams,<\/em><\/div>\n
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behind the face that looks at us there is no one.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Obverse without a reverse,one-sided coin, the side of things.<\/em><\/div>\n
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That pittance is the boon<\/em><\/div>\n
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tossed to us by hastening time.<\/em><\/div>\n
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We are our memory,<\/em><\/div>\n
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we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,<\/em><\/div>\n
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that pile of broken mirrors.<\/em><\/div>\n
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(Jorge Luis Borges in Cambridge<\/em>, found in the prefatory material to Robert Langan\u2019s Minding What Matters: Psychotherapy and the Buddha Within<\/em>)<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-7017465074499081270?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\")
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