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All Light Love Metaphor Patterns Recognition Understanding

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“To understand a metaphor is to recognize that if one context or conceptual constellation is laid over another, just so, aspects or outlines will spring into focus, a common pattern will be discernible — one that makes a difference to our grasp of the individual constellations or contexts separately.”

Understanding Metaphor Patterns Recognition

Book:Wisdom & Metaphor

Source: Wisdom & Metaphor

“Love, I'm pretty sure, is light.”

Book:Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

Source: Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

“Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.”

Book:Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

Source: Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences