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Poem by Olgierd Dilis

Published in December 1995

So many thoughts and ideas
attachments and desires
So many expectations
judgments and opinions
Must give way to unattached mind
immersed in eternal now
Filled up with original silence.

Olgierd Dilis
Warsaw, Poland

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