MYSTICAL AND OBSTINATE

 

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'There, right in front of it, is life and death. To contemplate the corpse is to take responsibility for one's own finitude. You don't understand, says death, you don't understand that to comprehend something it is necessary to be banished. Exile is the deprivation of the earth, of the sense of belonging to the world of men. Exile is dancing on one's own grave. Banishment is the navigation of the intermediate worlds between here and there. Banishment is nothingness and it is everything. How dare you defy that which does not belong to you? How do you dare to influence the cellular processes of life and death, how do you dare to cross that border? After the challenge, there is no choice but to live, to arrive at death calmly. That is the redemption of exile. To live and vibrate with everything. With everything is with the Whole. The All and the Nothing united forever in the infinite yes. And what the mystery of existence has united, let not the insignificance of the self separate it. To live, because life knows more than the self.

 

 

Indeed. Life and yes. What overwhelms is the immensity of life. What overwhelms is the force of what cannot be contained, of what overflows. The unbridled heart that bursts out of the chest in the infinite yes. Words are katana and blood. And then there is the infinite yes.

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ESTHER RODRIGUEZ-BARBERO

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