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Do not care for the names of things

Shawn Nevins, Shawn Nevins poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry by Shawn Nevins
(1968 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
Contemporary

Do not care for the names of things
or for the particulars.
It is the patterns that call out to you.
For in patterns you find the hand of God --
in names, the hand of man.
All you possess are words.
What you are is a play of light
upon the still hand of eternity.

 

 

 

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