When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.