AGONY AND ECSTASY
When you allow the world in
Fully and without any resistance
It will penetrate every atom of your being
You will experience
Both the agony of existence
And the suffering of being born into form
And also the sheer ecstasy of existence itself
The miracle of being
And the joy of being born into form
Both of these,
The agony and the ecstasy
Must be embraced with equal measure
Because both are true
But attach to neither
Because both are true
Only one who goes all the way in
All the way to the bottom
Can embrace both
Most spent their lives
Developing strategies to avoid them
And live a kind of half life.
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