Related Authors: Peter Matthiessen
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When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions – such as merit, such as past, present, and future – our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.
Related Authors: Peter Matthiessen
Related Topics: life, meditation, mind, reality, remorse, thinking
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