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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

Duino Elegies–Ranier Maria Rilke

The Bull’s Eye

The Bull’s Eye

October 30, 2017 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment

A man of massive meditation
Is like a man looking at death,
Looking at death as at a bull’s –eye.
He watches before he crosses the tracks.

–Richard Eberhart

Life comes at us without warning.  I cannot imagine what this day will bring.  Yet I must “cross the tracks,” get on with the business of my life.  I have my to-do list.  There is the potential customer that I hope to see in Gurnee, and the meeting preparation to attend to later at my desk.  This is what is meant by “the future.”  Opportunity and risk are one and the same.

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