Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn__ show you your reflection. It showed you your soul__t showed you who you really were.The wizard couldn__ look at it without turning away. The king couldn__ look at it. The courtiers couldn__ look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could.
Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I don__ want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?It__ something relative to the past and the future.It__ a thing that exists in virtue of other things existing.I only want reality, things without the present.I don__ want to include time in my scheme.I don__ want to think about things as present; I want to think of them as things.I don__ want to separate them from themselves, treating them as present.I shouldn__ even treat them as real.I should treat them as nothing.I should see them, only see them;See them till I can__ think about them.See them without time, without space,To see, dispensing with everything but what you see.And this is the science of seeing, which isn__ a science.
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
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Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I don__ want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?It__ something relative to the past and the future.It__ a thing that exists in virtue of other things existing.I only want reality, things without the present.I don__ want to include time in my scheme.I don__ want to think about things as present; I want to think of them as things.I don__ want to separate them from themselves, treating them as present.I shouldn__ even treat them as real.I should treat them as nothing.I should see them, only see them;See them till I can__ think about them.See them without time, without space,To see, dispensing with everything but what you see.And this is the science of seeing, which isn__ a science.
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