“Without speech, thoughts plough on like a train without tracks, buckling, crashing, ripping everything apart.”
At Last, Chapter 13
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“Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech”

The Vision
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)

Usar in ogni cosa una certa sprezzatura, che nasconda l'arte e dimostri ciò che si fa e dice venir fatto senza fatica e quasi senza pensarvi.
Bk. 1, ch. 26; p. 35.
Souced, Il Libro del Cortegiano (1528)

“Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself
without anyone noticing.”

“It is natural for a train to run on its tracks.”
Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)
Context: It is natural for a train to run on its tracks. We get into a train because we believe that it will do that. But once in a while the train runs off the rails, and there’s an accident. Those who don’t actually witness such a happening can say, “No train will run off the rails, it is unnatural for it to do so”.