Its activity consists in yearning, which merely loses itself in becoming an unsubstantial shadowy object, and, rising above this loss and falling back on itself, finds itself merely as lost. In this transparent purity of its moments it becomes a sorrow-laden "beautiful soul", as it is called; its light dims and dies within it, and it vanishes as a shapeless vapour dissolving into thin air.
bere egitea, horregatik, mira izatea da, zeinak bere burua zerizangabeko objektu bihurtzean bere burua galtzen duen eta, galera horretatik haraindi berriz bere burura itzuliz, bere burua galdutako gisa baino ez duen aurkitzen; bere uneen araztasun garden horretan zoritzarrezko arima eder deitzen zaiona bihurtzen da, bere argia bere barnean iraungitzen da eta formarik gabeko lurrin batean desagertzen da, airean desegiten den lurrinean.