A Poem by Pablo Neruda

My cousin, introduced me this name Pablo Neruda some two - three months back. She, just like me, is an admirer of good work (Espeically if it is romantic). As being progressing with a career in Literature, she came to know of Pablo first.
Though I was not able to honestly put in some time to read his work, I have to say, the name kept ringing in my mind again and again.
So today, when I had a little time in office to me, I read few poems of him. Mostly it is the "Songs of despair" which is a well-known work of Pablo.
But, I liked this poem a lot. A short sweet poem, full of emotions. Here it is:-

I do not love you except because I love you

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

The Purest Expression of Truth

Janak asked:
"Oh lord, how does one attain wisdom? and how does liberation happen? and
how is nonattachment attained? please tell me this."

Ashtavakra replied:
"Oh beloved, if you want liberation then renounce the vishayas, the passions as visha, poison, and take forgiveness, innocence, compassion, contentment, and truth as nectar. you are neither earth, nor air, nor fire, nor water, nor ether. to attain liberation, know yourself as the witness, conscious of all these.

• If you can separate yourself from the physical body, and rest in consciousness, then this very moment you will be happy, at peace, and free of bondage.
• You are not a brahmin or other caste, you are not in any of the four stages of life, you are not perceived by the eyes or other senses. unattached and without form, you are the witness of the whole universe. know this and be
  happy.
• Oh expansive one, religion and atheism, happiness and misery – all are of the mind, they are not for you. you are not the doer nor the enjoyer. you have always been liberated."