The Spirit of Truth

Give first, then take,
so that you will not take one last time.

Don’t dream of the oceans
lest a glass of water in your palm
become a stormy ocean,
while someone next to you
with a dry mouth.

Go to the end of your thought
so that the thought can find its beginning,
for if you ask with the answer within you,
whoever can answer you?

And there are no more steps forward,
just an abyss under your feet.

If two people are joined by a third thing
and not just their own dream,
they open the paths for each other
from the dream of being present to actions
and not just from actions
to the presence of their own abyss.

Do not be afraid of the shadows of your body
cast by the sun that is not there.

It is enough to fall asleep on this side
so that the sun’s rays can wake you up on the other side.

Do not walk around as if you exist,
but like a person who does not exist,
left to others into the palms of their hands
so that they can revive you
like the azure buds of eternity.

You are a human outside of time and space,
without eyes and hands,
because you carry them in the mirror of time and space
where you are not.

But you determine with whom you make a pair,
and your fellowman determines with whom he makes a pair,
with you human or the mirror.

You will know by either the power or powerlessness of your heart
as you stand before him.
And he will know by either the power or powerlessness of his heart
as he stands before you.

For the only path that leads across the horizons
are you to others and others to you.
Everything else is taking place only in the mirror,
which leads nowhere –
because where the path of the mirror begins,
is where it ends for where you are.