There are three conditions which often look alike

Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:

Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment

From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference

Which resembles the others as death resembles life,

Being between two lives -unflowering, between

The live and the dead nettle. This is the use of memory:

For liberation -not less of love but expanding

Of love beyond desire, and so liberation

From the future as well as the past.

-Little Gidding.