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How to travel light (with Einstein's blessing) followed by footnote


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First you fold your wings

Because you won't be needing them

Then you clear your mind

And focus on what may come

Then you let go

Like when you were little

On a sled with sanded runners

Giving yourself to the

Three generation hill

Faster and faster

Outstripping your own ecstatic squeal

Like driving an express bus

Down broadway

With all the colored lights

Of galaxies passing

Through your unspoiled eyes

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In writing this poem I was influenced by Einstein's account of an early dream:
Einstein: " My entire scientific career has been a meditation on my dream."
"I was sledding with my friends at night. I started to slide down the hill but my sled started going faster and faster. I was going so fast that I realized I was approaching the speed of light. I looked up at that point and I saw the stars. They were being refracted into colors I had never seen before. I was filled with a sense of awe. I understood in some way that I was looking at the most important meaning in my life." (Dreamed around 1890-95)
Quoted passage from: Jungcurrents.com

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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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