New Mexico
Be still and the earth will speak to you
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the secret sits in the middle and knows.
– Robert Frost
In those subtle moments we sometimes drift into, when time slips away and life stands silent and majestic, words cease to spill from our mouths or even bubble up from that source within. The warming wholeness ensues at the sheer experience of it all: we marvel at the vast beautiful complexity of creation rolling around and within us.
– Chris Arkenberg
Some kind of dialog is now going on between individual human beings and the sum total of human knowledge and nothing can stop it.
Terence McKenna
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. Oftentimes one has to go abroad to find the home one has lost.
– Franz Kafka
Wikipedia
In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete. During a ritual’s liminal stage, participants “stand at the threshold” between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way, which the ritual establishes.
He knew, as sailors come to, not to stare hard but to let the faintest suggestion of form and light in at the periphery of his gaze.
– Peter Nichols, A Voyage For Madmen
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise.
Bertrand Russell
