Maia Corbin

“Utram bibis? Aquam an undam?
What are you drinking? The water or the wave?”
― John Fowles The Magus

“it was a common dictum among both Scholastic and mystical theologians that whereas the intellect receives its object according to its own measure, love dilates to the measure of its object. As a corollary, some taught that affection leaves understanding wholly behind in mystical union with God, others that the will draws understanding after it into divine union, or that “love itself is knowledge.”
― Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls

“Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“One must develop a feel for the music, probably over time, and then give oneself over to it. This is neither completely a function of the music itself nor of the listener; it is an interaction of the two. The listener must at some point take on the appropriate attitude to be able to hear what is happening in the piece. Similarly, a nurse must give herself to the rhythm of the hospital, must “get into” what is happening; she must accept its normality and take up its rhythms and melodies as her own. So the leap into a routine, where to the layperson there is chaos, cannot be impelled by all of the training that has come before. Routinization of this world (or any other) remains a free lived act of the individual.”
― Daniel F. Chambliss, Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics