Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
R. M. Rilke
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Siddhapratima Yantra
(Shrine of a Perfected Being),
West India, 1333.
Bronze with traces of gilding and silver inlay.
Freer museum, Washington D.C.