"Nothing is without, nothing is within. You
know the religious meaning of this: God is
everywhere. He is in the spirit, and also in
nature. All is divine, because God is all." -- H. Hesse -- From Within and Without, Main Quote Submitted by Peter Cameron Rowland
Peter mentions in his highlight the torture and frustration and amusement of the "flux from being aware to not. " These moves taken together are a powerful reminder to me of the process of shifting and jaunting back and forth from distinctions and no distinctions. How often do we humans find that moment or experience that unites everything for us only to find it slip away, for what ever reason we may not know. Or as Philip K. Dick so elequently described the dilemma (and I'm paraphrasing), "If you find God, shouldn't you at least be able to keep him." |