I’ve logged more experience than most with simplicity and the complexity you discover inside simplicity, minimalism and asocial behavior, endurance and landscape.
Here is the truth: I think some deep wisdom inside me (a) sensed the stress, (b) was terrified for me, and (c) gave me something new and hard to focus on in order to prevent me from lapsing into a despair coma — and also to keep me from having a jelly jar of wine in my hand.
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The soul of every man does possess the power of learning the truth, and the organ to see it with. . . . Just as one might have to turn the whole body round in order that the eye should see the light instead of the darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world until its eye can bear to contemplate reality. Plato
The soul of every man does possess the power of learning the truth, and the organ to see it with. . . . Just as one might have to turn the whole body round in order that the eye should see the light instead of the darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world until its eye can bear to contemplate reality.
Plato
In a certain sense, every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. Nicholas Berdyaev
In a certain sense, every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
Nicholas Berdyaev
Contradiction is the criterion of reality. Simone Weil
Contradiction is the criterion of reality.
Simone Weil
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experiences. Katherine Tingley
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experiences.
Katherine Tingley
There are no mistakes and it’s never boring on the edge of the imagination, which is only pure spirit out having a bit of fun. Wavy Gravy
There are no mistakes and it’s never boring on the edge of the imagination, which is only pure spirit out having a bit of fun.
Wavy Gravy
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife’s body in the faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still high light of the morning. I feel an ache of longing to share this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire, but directed towards earth, water, sky, and returned by the whispers of the trees, the fragrance of the soil, the caresses of the wind, the embrace of water and light. Content? No, no, no — but refreshed, rested, while waiting. Dag Hammersskjold
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife’s body in the faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still high light of the morning. I feel an ache of longing to share this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire, but directed towards earth, water, sky, and returned by the whispers of the trees, the fragrance of the soil, the caresses of the wind, the embrace of water and light. Content? No, no, no — but refreshed, rested, while waiting.
Dag Hammersskjold
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
The great trick is to discover what it is that holds people fast to the status quo and then undo the knots — perhaps even on a person-by-person basis. Theodore Roszak
The great trick is to discover what it is that holds people fast to the status quo and then undo the knots — perhaps even on a person-by-person basis.
Theodore Roszak
Salvation is seeing that the universe is good, and becoming a part of that goodness. Arthur G. Clutton-Brock
Salvation is seeing that the universe is good, and becoming a part of that goodness.
Arthur G. Clutton-Brock
Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea: even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me. Psalms, The Bible
Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea: even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.
Psalms, The Bible
© John Cotterman