If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don’t seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking. Wu-men Hui-kai (1183 – 1260)
David Whyte Quote – “In this high place it is as simple as this…”
In this high place it is as simple as this, Leave everything you know behind. Step toward the cold surface, say the old prayer of rough love and open both arms. Those who come with empty hands will stare into the lake astonished, there, in the cold light reflecting pure snow, the true shape of your own face. David Whyte […]
H. G. Wells Quote – “It is the going out from oneself that is love…”
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed. H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946)
William Wordsworth Quote – “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…”
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
William Wordsworth Quote – “Listen! The Mighty Being is awake…”
Listen! The Mighty Being is awake, and doth with His eternal motion make, a sound like thunder — everlastingly. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
Walt Whitman Quote – “I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you…”
Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination, Or whether we shall be victorious, or utterly quell’d and defeated. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Walt Whitman Quote – “There is apart from mere intellect, in the make-up of every superior human identity…”
There is apart from mere intellect, in the make-up of every superior human identity, a wondrous something that realizes without argument, frequently without what is called education (though I think it the goal and apex of all education deserving the name), an intuition of the absolute balance, in time and space, of the whole of this multifariousness, this revel of […]
Walt Whitman Quote – “The central urge in every atom…”
The central urge in every atom, to return to its divine source and origin. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Walt Whitman Quote – “Dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Simone Weil Quote – “Even if our efforts of attention seem for years…”
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
