For those who would see directly into essential nature, the idea of the sacred is a delusion and an obstruction: it diverts us from seeing what is before our eyes: plain thusness. And This, thusness, is the nature of the nature of nature. The wild in the wild
Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveller.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The effect of life in society is to complicate our existence,
making us forget who we really are,
by causing us to become obsessed
with what we are not
Chuang Tzu, 4th Century BC, Inner Chapters
Wait awhile, close your eyes, let your breathing stop three seconds or so, listen to the inside silence in the womb of the world, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, re-recognize the bliss you forgot, the emptiness and essence and ecstasy of ever having been and ever to be the golden eternity. This is the lesson you forgot.
Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
Everything that seems empty
is full of the angels of God.
Hilary of Poitiers, 310 – 368 AD
Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, ‘Can a person lay a new foundation every day?’
The old man said,
‘If they work hard, they can lay a new foundation at every moment.‘
From the sayings of the Desert Fathers. Abba Moses lived 330 – 405 AD
