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Original Language
English
Become Nothing

Themes
  Heart
  Water
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Stepping Into Brilliant Air, by Colin Oliver

(After Ansari)

Who walks on water
is no better than a straw.
Who flies in the air
is no better than a fly.
Be without equal:
become nothing.
Find the real self
where no self exists.
The heart resigns
and the eye sees
nothing but God.

 

 

-- from Stepping Into Brilliant Air, by Colin Oliver

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