Life and Existence

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

If goodness lead him not, yet weariness

The land of spices; something understood.

When God at first made man,

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,

Teach me, my God and King,

Teach me, my God and King,

Let all the world in ev’ry corner sing

Everything flows and nothing stays.

You can’t step twice into the same river.

Dieu me pardonnera, c’est son métier.

I am the family face;

The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything.

The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything.

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go … Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go … Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?

What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?

He saw; but blasted with excess of light,

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth