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41 " My look blue as the skyIs as calm as water in the sun.It’s that way, blue and calm,Because it doesn’t question and it doesn’t get surprised...If I did question or got surprisedNew flowers wouldn’t bloom in the meadowsAnd nothing would change in the sun in a way to make it more beautiful...(Even if new flowers bloomed in the meadowsAnd the sun turned more beautiful,I would sense fewer flowers in the meadowAnd would find the sun more ugly...Because everything’s like it is and so it’s what it is,And I accept, and I’m not even thankful,So I don’t seem to be thinking about it...) "
― Alberto Caeiro , The Keeper of Sheep
42 " The main thing is knowing how to see,To know how to see without thinking,To know how to see when you see,And not think when you seeOr see when you think. "
43 " Those soapbubbles that kidAmuses himself with by blowing them from a strawAre transparently a whole philosophy.Clear, useless and fleeting like Nature,Friends to the eyes like things,They are what they areWith a little round airy precision,And nobody, not even the kid who’s making them,Pretends they’re more than they appear to be.Some are hard to see in the clear air.They’re like a breeze that blows and barely touches the flowersAnd we only know it’s blowingBecause something lightens in usAnd accepts everything more clearly. "
44 " But if God is the trees and the flowersAnd the hills and the moonlight and the sun,Why should I call him God?I call him flowers and trees and hills and sun and moonlight;Because if he made himself for me to seeAs the sun and moonlight and flowers and trees and hills,If he appears to me as trees and hillsAnd moonlight and sun and flowers,It’s because he wants me to know himAs trees and hills and flowers and moonlight and sun.And that’s why I obey him,(What more do I know about God than God knows about himself?),I obey him by living, spontaneously,Like someone opening his eyes and seeing,And I call him moonlight and sun and flowers and trees and hills,And I love him without thinking about him,And I think him by seeing and hearing,And I walk with him all the time. "
45 " And he feels hurt when he hears about wars,And commerce, and the ships leavingTheir smoke on the high seas.Because he knows all of this lacks the truthA flower has in its bloomingAnd which moves with the sunlightChanging the hills and valleys "
46 " Sinto-me nascido a cada momentopara a completa novidade do mundo... "
47 " From my village I see as much in the Universe as you can see from earth.So my village is as big as any other landBecause I’m the size of what I see,Not the size of my height. "
48 " He’s taught me everything.He taught me how to look at things.He shows me everything there is in flowers.He shows me how stones are pleasingWhen you hold them in your handAnd look at them for a while. "