I was not aware of the moment
when I first crossed the threshold of this life.
What was the power that made me open out into this vast mystery
like a bud in the forest at midnight!
When in the morning I looked upon the light
I felt in a moment that I was no stranger in this world,
that the inscrutable without name and form
had taken me in its arms in the form of my own mother.
Even so, in d**h the same unknown will appear as ever known to me.
And because I love this life,
I know I shall love d**h as well.
The child cries out
when from the right breast the mother takes it away,
in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation.