TO SEE A THING AS IT IS

To see a thing with fresh eyes

To see it without the burden of the past

is to see it as it is,

the thing in intself.

Then you see a world in a grain of sand

an ocean in a drop of dew.

To see so is to reclaim

the word 'idea' in its original sense.

When 'idea' is made abstract

it becomes ideo-logy.

Then you see a communist, a socialist, an anarchist

an Indian, a European or an American;

you never see a being in its pure glory

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