When we are mired in the relative world,
never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted,
incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise
that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words
and ideas and abstractions- such as merit, such as past, present,
and future- our direct, spontaneous experience
of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision
of this present moment.
never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted,
incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise
that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words
and ideas and abstractions- such as merit, such as past, present,
and future- our direct, spontaneous experience
of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision
of this present moment.
~ Peter Matthiessen
from The Snow Leopard
from The Snow Leopard
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