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"To stand before" is an interesting phrase. It fuses space and time. Before is temporal, but the meaning is that you're "in front" of something. So if you're spatially "before" it, it implies that you're about to dissolve into it.

“I would scarcely have admitted it at that moment but there is something extraordinary in the ordinary practice of keeping animals as domestic companions. The unconditional love we are capable of expressing for small beings can mask but not overcome the fact that we love what we can never finally know. We can love only what cannot be fully recogniz

“The issue for mystics is not whether we use our language accurately to describe the world that is really there but whether we see that the things created by our language have the impermanence of foam on the face of the unnameable, the unknowable, the unutterable. For Aristotle and Descartes; the silence of animals that does not give rise to speech