Knowing the Text That Knows Me

Learning a text is making it familiar,
Developing a closeness,
Learning a text is making it one’s own,

Not as an appropriation, an act of piracy,
but as a taming.

A wild text becomes my domestic text.
And as I know it,
I allow it to know me.

Learning a text is also being ready to open oneself to the text,
to let it flow, flow with all its sounds, all its senses, into our inner cave,
Learning a text is going towards the text and trusting it.
Beyond what we see, at this moment, like the healing plant, we do not maintain its mechanisms of action.

©FJ Sept. 2025
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