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The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
Forget mystery and accept love. There’s no mystery about love. It comes from life.
“The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.”
“I don’t want to be part of history,” she whispered. “I just want to be loved . . . and to love.”
Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”
If you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!
he felt his life stretch out as long as the existence of the universe. Real flesh lay condensed, finite in its emerald cavern of awareness, but infinite life had shared his being.
“We make our bargain with the future,”
Love knows love.”
He had come out here looking for one thing and had found another. It was as though he’d lurched into a room full of familiar people only to realize too late that he knew none of them.
