Beginning words:<\/p>\n
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All beginnings are difficult \u2013<\/p>\n
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Especially difficult beginnings,<\/p>\n
Where nothing exists before<\/p>\n
And nothing exists after if<\/p>\n
The beginning ceases to begin.<\/p>\n
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Some make ends meet: taking two<\/p>\n
Different points and bringing them<\/p>\n
Together<\/p>\n
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Here we make beginnings<\/p>\n
(And after we make beginnings meet):<\/p>\n
Taking two different points and<\/p>\n
Creating them, separating them,<\/p>\n
(For what is creation if not separation?)<\/p>\n
But only so that later they can be brought<\/p>\n
Back together again in a much deeper way<\/p>\n
(For what is separation if not a means to unity?)<\/p>\n
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Creation is really very sad:<\/p>\n
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Before the beginning everything is one<\/p>\n
And only, consumed within the source:<\/p>\n
Body and soul do not exist for they are in<\/p>\n
A place where the white space between the<\/p>\n
Ink, the pauses between each note, do not<\/p>\n
 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Exist.<\/p>\n
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Only He alone exists and He is everything.<\/p>\n
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Before the beginning these words are<\/p>\n
Of one inkwell, without form, feeling,<\/p>\n
Of function<\/p>\n
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In the beginning
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G-d created
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The heavens
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And the earths<\/i><\/p>\n
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Then separation: G-d created,<\/p>\n
Separated heaven and earth,<\/p>\n
Body and soul, matter and<\/p>\n
Spirit \u2013 and a universe of<\/p>\n
Cold darkness, where one<\/p>\n
Can look at a fa\u00e7ade and<\/p>\n
Not see its purpose, look<\/p>\n
At a face and only see pain,<\/p>\n
Came into being\u2026<\/p>\n
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The earth was astonishingly empty
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Darkness on the surface of the deep<\/i><\/p>\n
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But then:<\/p>\n
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G-d said
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Let there be light
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And there was light<\/i><\/p>\n
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True, creation, beginnings are<\/p>\n
About leaving the comfort zone<\/p>\n
Of before, where everything is one<\/p>\n
And at home, for a place that is foreign<\/p>\n
And alone, where we do not recognize<\/p>\n
From where we come and to where we<\/p>\n
Go, but, without the fragmentation, with-<\/p>\n
Out the darkness we could never have the<\/p>\n
Light, without the black ink of limitation<\/p>\n
We could never have the white page of purity.<\/p>\n
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These are words, letters, poetry \u2013<\/p>\n
Creating light, ideas, prospects,<\/p>\n
By separating inks, letter, words,<\/p>\n
And bringing them back together<\/p>\n
In a unified message, a cohesive<\/p>\n
Whole portraying truth and life.<\/p>\n
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This is creation, existence, beginning \u2013<\/p>\n
Bringing the letters, the words, fragmented<\/p>\n
Particles which surround us and are within<\/p>\n
Us, back together and creating with them<\/p>\n
Light, happiness, purity and innocence:<\/p>\n
Life!<\/p>\n
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We are all beginners \u2013<\/p>\n
If we weren\u2019t we\u2019d be enders\u2026<\/p>\n
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And beginners are always passionate.<\/p>\n
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May we always be beginning \u2013<\/p>\n
And may the beginning always be us:<\/p>\n
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May we always be beginning new things \u2013<\/p>\n
And may the beginning always be new to us.<\/p>\n