THE BIOLOGY OF ART
Once at night
it begins
and you are the rest
whoever you are you see the first light
you see it arriving
like a star with you watching it
in the morning you can look at any tree
and see it has no age
and say so
after a long time you look down
into a valley without a name
after a long time as water you look up
– W. S. Merwin, from his book The Rain in the Trees (A.A. Knopf, 1988
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chakras-energie.com says
D’un certain point de vue, il est le symétrique du chakra de la base qui nous
relie à la terre.