Monday, March 28, 2022

"There is progress whether you are going forward or backwards!

The thing is to move!" 



ECRL 3027-2

常道

Via est Vita

Per Aspera ad Astra

Virgil's Aeneid, IX, 641

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Hercules furens: "non est ad astra mollis e terris via"

 Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. p. 222.

My soul

shattered with the strain

of trying to belong to earth —

— penultimate strophe from “Persephone the Wanderer.”

from Averno by Louise Glück. Copyright © 2006 by Louise Glück

Give me solitude—give me Nature—give me again,

O Nature, your primal sanities!

— Walt Whitman, “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun”, Leaves of Grass p.47

The perception of groundlessness

with an awareness of its place as the ground of being

is at the heart of non-dual realization and wisdom.

— Dr. J. Richard Paszkiewicz,

सुनयानंद Sunyananda

(आनन्द ānanda means 'bliss, joy')