Liber Caeli - Chapter 15

Verses

Verse 35

The student asked, Why does Uranus lie on its side? The teacher said, Side relative to what?

Verse 36

He answered, Relative to the other planets. The teacher said, Then the other planets have entered your definition of Uranus.

Verse 37

Up exists for the body because gravity provides a habit.

Verse 38

In empty space, your sacred vertical loses employment.

Verse 39

So too the mind says I am this because memory provides a direction.

Verse 40

Turn the memory and the person appears altered; awareness has not rotated.

Verse 41

The student asked, Is the witness like a pole that never moves? The teacher said, A pole is still an object.

Verse 42

Whatever you can imagine as stillness is witnessed along with motion.

Verse 43

Do not make the Self into the most respectable thing in the room.

Verse 44

The Self has no posture.

Verse 45

A planet may tumble, a thought may contradict yesterday, a body may age; knowing is not bruised by their angles.

Verse 46

The cat sleeps upside down and loses no metaphysical status.

Verse 47

Learn from her without becoming unbearable about cats.

Verse 48

When you no longer need the universe to face the approved direction, peace becomes less architectural.

Verse 49

Then Uranus is not strange. Comparison was strange.