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Between Internal & External
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Thursday, February 16, 2017    Rated "G" by the Author.
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An attempt with what is not steady

To produce what is even and steady

Will only bring an unsteady result;

An attempt with what is uncertain

To make the uncertain certain

Will leave the uncertainty unsolved.

 

He who uses only the sight of his eyes

Is acted on by what he sees.

It is insight and intuition of the spirit

That gives assurance of the certainty.

 

That the sight of the eyes is not equal

To insight and intuition of the spirit

Is a thing long acknowledged, and yet

We use to rely on what we see, and

Have it to be the sentiment of us.

 

Alas, but all our scientific progress

Associates with what is external, not internal.


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 Reviews of "Between Internal & External"
Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on February 16, 2017
You are so.....right!

Always,

Deborah

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on February 16, 2017
The entire modern scientific establishment takes as its first principle the existence of physical matter as the ultimate identify of the Reality, with a capital R. The modern scientific method is based on seeing, yes, as you say, with the physical eyes (and what we can't see with the eyes we try to see with rarefied instruments nowadays). But is that it? As you say at the end of this poem, scientific progress associates itself with the external (physical), not the internal (spiritual). So, what about that. And what is the Reality. All the great revelations of the world religions suggests that there is a Higher Reality that lies behind the physical reality that we can actually see with our own eyes. John

Reviewed by Charles Neff
Reviewed on February 16, 2017
I liked this, Alex and it corresponds to my current mood/situation, one that makes me suspicious of the value anything sensory. But meanwhile insight flounders. Rest, uneasy, reigns. I hope this condition's only for the moment (that concept being relative!). Patience searches for a new window, not perfectly clear, but simply less cloudy.
Charlie


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