reiterating the universal hymn of dusk and dawn— Time stirs parallel worlds
“To perceive matter that casts no shadow, you must search not for its presence but for its consequence.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail”
― The Awful Rowing Toward God
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail”
― The Awful Rowing Toward God
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