Yet another take on Circles, Mandalas, and Life

Photograph I took inside the Chelsea Market, NYC

On Being: "Widening Circles" by Rainer Maria Rilka

translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows

I live my life in widening circles

that reach out across the world.

I may not complete this last one

but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.

I've been circling for thousands of years

and I still don't know: am I a falcon,

a storm, or a great song?

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