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Between the conscious and the unconscious,

the mind has put up a swing:

all earth creatures, even the supernovas,
sway between these two trees,

and it never winds down.

Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million,

also the wheeling sun and moon;

ages go by, and it goes on.

Everything is swinging; heaven, earth, water, fire,

and the secret one slowly growing a body.

Kabir saw that for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant for life.

~Kabir

(translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass)