The eve of the feast of Samhain, marking the end of the harvest season. It was the most important of the four Celtic Festivals, the start of winter and the darker part of the year. Bonfires were lit as a reminder of the victory of light over the increasing dark days.
When you do something,
you should burn yourself completely,
like a good bonfire,
leaving no trace of yourself.
Shunryu Suzuki
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
Mary Oliver, Mysteries, Yes
What we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence.
[Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen]
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Silence can be a plan
rigorously executed
the blueprint to a life
It is a presence
it has a history a form
Do not confuse it
with any kind of absence.
It was an old theme even for me:
Language cannot do everything
Adrienne Rich, Cartographies of Silence, 3 and 7 [extracts]
There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us:
we suffer more often in imagination than in reality
Seneca the Younger, Letters from a Stoic
Awareness is the silent and choiceless observation of what is.
Jiddu Krisnamurti
Pass through this brief life in accordance with nature…
Gladly…like an olive that ripens and falls…
grateful to the tree that it grew on.
Marcus Aurelius Meditations 4,48
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