” ‘But I do love the world,’ I whispered to a waiting presence. ‘I love its small ones, the things beaten in the strangling surf, the bird, singing, which flies and falls and is not seen again. I love the lost ones, the failures of the world.’ It was not a rift but a joining: the expression of love projected beyond …the species boundary. A sparse mercy had persisted, like a mutation whose time had not yet come.”
- Loren Eiseley: “The Star Thrower” (1969)
“I think no human being can give more than this. making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.”
- Martin Buber
23 December 2009:
“I learned, in the brotherhood of the trees, to reconcile myself, not with myself: with what lifts me, sustains me, lets me fall.”
- Octavio Paz: “A Tale Of Two Gardens” (1964 - 1968)
12 June 2009:
“… the surge of the soul is … more powerful than we are … why praise and blame? … this surge … it always is.”
- Pascal Mercier: “Last Train To Lisbon” (p. 320) / Translated from the German by Barbara Harshav
10 August 2010:
“abiding pure presence is joy, living bliss : all is present (ex)cept the ad(here)nts of ‘I’, ‘us’, ‘it’, ‘a’, ‘the’, or ‘that’ : whose each referent betrays love, perfectly concealing the authentic inheritance of consciousness”
- Michael D. Main
1 August 2009:
“Some declare that it [the soul] is mixed in the whole [universe], and perhaps this is why Thales thought all things are full of gods. Thales, too, supposed that the Soul was something that produces motion.”
- Aristotle: “On The Soul” (1.5 411a7-8 = 11A2
“Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar?”
- Kakuzo Okakura: The Book Of Tea [ “The Cup Of Humanity” ]
“God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can’t come to visit you unless you aren’t there.”
- Angelus Silesius
10 December 2009:
:: beauty outlives everything ::
- Inscription on the tombstone of Indiana landscape painter T.C. Steele. His property, on which it rests, was one of my [ Michael D. Main ] favorite places when I was an undergraduate in the 1970s.
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