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How beautiful she is! Poor mirror, it must be tormenting-it is good that you don't know jealousy. Her head is perfectly oval; she tilts a little , thereby accentuating her forehead, which rises pure and proud without any delineation of the powers of understanding. Her dark hair rings her forehead softly and gently. Her countenance is like a fruit; every angle fully rounded; herskin transparent, like velevt to the touch-that I can feel with y eyes. Her eyes-yes, I have not even seen them; they are hidden by lids armed with sliken fringes that are bend like barbs, dangerous to anyone who whises to meet her glance. Her head is a Madonna head, purity and innocence its mark. She is bowed down like a Madonna, but she is not lost in contemplation of the One; this causes the expression in her face to vary. What she is contemplating is multiplicity, the multiplicity over which earthly pomp and glory cast a reflection. She takes off her glove to show to the mirror and me a right hand as white and shapely as that of an ancient statue, without any ornaments, not even a flat glod ring on the fourth finger-bravo! She raised her eyes-how changed everything is, and yet the same-the forehead a little less high, the face a little less high, the face a little less uniforlmy oval but more vital.
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    Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both, don't get addicted to one. Don't say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible, not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.
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