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Between
the conscious and the unconscious, the mid has put up
a swing:
All earth creatures, even the supernovas, sway
Between these two trees, And it never winds down.
Angels,
animals, humans, insects by the million, also
The wheeling sun and moon;
Ages go by, and it goes on.
Everything
is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire,
And the secret one slowly growing a body.
Kabir saw that for fifteen seconds, and it made him
a servant for life.
Kabir
The
Kabir Book : Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
by Robert Bly (poem 10)
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Mount
Aconcagua is commonly regarded as the highest summit
in the Western Hemisphere, rising 22,834 feet (6,960
m) above sea level. Aconcagua lies in the Central Andes,
its peak being in Mendoza province, in northwestern
Argentina, but its western flanks build up from the
coastal lowlands of Chile, just north of Santiago. It
is of volcanic origin, but it is not itself a volcano.
The first attempted ascent, made in 1883, failed; the
summit was first reached in 1897 by Matthias Zurbriggen.
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occured January 23, 2002 by Alpine Ascents International
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| Kabir
(circa 1440-1518 AD) is a very important figure in Indian
history. He is unusual in that he is spiritually significant
to Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims alike. His early upbringing
is much clearer. Kabir was raised among a Muslim community
of weavers. He was never formally educated and was almost
completely illiterate. The basic religious principles
he espouses are simple. According to Kabir, all life is
an interplay of two spiritual principles. One is the personal
soul (Jivatma) and the other is God (Paramatma). It is
Kabir's view that salvation is the process of bringing
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