One of Denise Levertov’s many beautiful book jackets from aperfectcommotion & lumpy-pudding
There must be a stillness and a silence for this Word to make itself heard. We cannot serve this Word better than in stillness and silence: there we can hear it and there too we will understand it aright—in the unknowing. To him who knows nothing, it appears and reveals itself.
Meister Eckhart, Sermons and Treatises (via touba)
Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in themselves that seeks expression. They gesture toward the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.
Joseph Chilton Pearce from “Evolution’s End.” Epigraph to “The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling,” by James Hillman (via epigraphic)
In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.
C.G. Jung from “The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling” by James Hillman (via epigraphic)
Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul’s break for freedom.
David Whyte (via thesoundofsilence & noornalini)
In-Between
We here and that man, this man,
and that other in-between,
and that woman, this woman,
and that other, whoever,
those people, and these,
and these others in-between,
these things, that thing,
and this other in-between, whichever,
all things dying, these things,
those things, those others in-between,
good things, bad things,
things that were, that will be,
being all of them,
he stands there.
~ Nammalwar (AD880 to AD930)
Courtesy of Death Deconstructed.
by dailypost-its from mianoti.
