Saint Augustine, on being asked what is time: “I know what it is, but when you ask me I don’t.”

“Where do the flowers come from?”

Even the God of spring does not know.

Being Obscure

Verse 70, Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching (as translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

My words are so easy to understand,
so easy to follow,

Infinite Jest, fragments

“Wraiths by and large exist (putting his arms out slowly and making little quotation-mark finger-wiggles as he said exist) in a totally different Heisenbergian dimension of rate-change and time-passage.”

5. Waiting (Nourishment)

All beings have need of nourishment from above. But the gift of food comes in its own time, and for this one must wait… The rain will come in its own time. We cannot make it come; we have to wait for it… Strength in the face of danger does not plunge ahead but bides its time, whereas…

I Ching, The Great Treatise, Part 1 (fragments)

…in the last analysis the world is a system of homogeneous relationships — that it is a cosmos, not a chaos.

The ultimate frame of reference for all…

“At last you’ve found out.”

“The highest mountain, the oldest books, the strangest people, there you will find the stone.”

Sentences

The sensitive boy sensed 
all that Sensimilla smoke 
contributed to the cloud, 
“The Smoky Mirror.”

He saw his words as actions;
Thoughts like vibrational alchemy transmigrating energy and matter
to create…

The Shape of Water

Unable to perceive the shape of You,

I find You all around me.

Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,

It humbles my heart,

For You are everywhere…
 — guillermo del toro

On Spirit, fragments (Cusp of Magic)

“Spirit is something higher than intellect in that it includes not only the latter, but the feelings as well. It is a direction, or principle, of life that strives towards shining, supra-human heights.”

~ C.G. Jung (Commentary),

The Secret Of The Golden Flower