10.) “But let there be spaces in your togetherness.
“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
-on Marriage
9.) “He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.”
-on Religion
8.) “And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.”
-on Pain
7.) “What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?
“What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin and calls all others naked and shameless?”
-on Laws
6.) “If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
-on Teaching
5.) “For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive.”
-on Prayer
4.) “And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.”
-on Freedom
3.) “For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?”
-on Giving
2.) “Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in the twilight between the night of his pygmy self and the day of his god self.”
-on Crime and Punishment
1.) “Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
-on Houses
By B Gourley in Books, lists, Literature, Poetry, wisdom on March 18, 2018.
