Thursday, May 21, 2009

.É preciso silêncio dentro.



“O longo silêncio quer dizer: “Estou ponderando cuidadosamente tudo aquilo que você falou”. 

E assim vai a reunião. Não basta o silêncio de fora. É preciso silêncio dentro.

 Ausência de pensamentos. 

E aí, quando se faz o silêncio dentro, a gente começa a ouvir coisas que não ouvia.”

               Rubem Alves.

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Sunday, May 17, 2009

.Lose Something Everyday.



.One Art.
 
 The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three beloved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

-- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster. 

Elizabeth Bishop