<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Knowledge</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">“God is the absence of everything”</span><br style=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Meister Eckhart</span></i><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">in the chill</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">no angels watch</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">a lonely human</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">trying to return</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">the apple to the tree</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">it's a noble struggle</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">fidgety with detail</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">arrogance and sweep</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">neurons grasp for meaning</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">reach to gentle the edges</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">it's a time before ticking</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">before mind's overstocked pantry</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">ponders impermanence and contingency </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">learns the inevitable dissolution </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">of all living things</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">is this holy moment of now</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">meant only to humble and hobble</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">a passing dream illusion</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">of unknowable preassigned destiny </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">in a fallen world</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">there is only longing</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">an undimishable wish </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">to return to the garden</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Les Bernstein</span></div></div></body></html>