The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching