“The houses that trouble me most are the ones with a lamp on all night and people living inside. I don’t look at those lamps and think what a waste of electricity or money they are. It’s another waste I see. For every watt that shines in the darkness, I see restless sleepers drifting further and further from their souls.”
― Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
― Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
“Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make sense any more.”
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there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make sense any more.”
―
“I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.”
―
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.”
―
“In the dark, every voice could be the voice of an ancestor or a spirit guide. In the darkness, who can tell the living from the dead?”
― Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
― Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
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