“Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make sense any more.”
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Coleman Barks 1
American poet 1937Related quotes
“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: To me, when we talk about the world, we are talking about our ideas of the world. Our ideas of organisation, our different religions, our different economic systems, our ideas about it are the world. We are heading for a radical revision where you could say we are heading towards the end of the world, but more in the R. E. M. sense than the Revelation sense. That is what apocalypse means – revelation. I could square that with the end of the world, a revelation, a new way of looking at things, something that completely radicalises our notions of the where we were, when we were, what we were, something like that would constitute an end to the world in the kind of abstract – yet very real sense – that I am talking about. A change in the language, a change in the thinking, a change in the music. It wouldn’t take much – one big scientific idea, or artistic idea, one good book, one good painting – who knows – we are at a critical point where the ideas are coming thicker and faster and stranger and stranger than they ever were before. They are realised at a greater speed, everything has become very fluid.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.”
"The Great Wagon" Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 36
Variant translations:
Between wrongness and rightness there is a field. I will meet you there.
As quoted in Counselling Psychology : Integration of Theory, Research and Supervised Practice (1998) by Petruska Clarkson
Out beyond the world of ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
As quoted in Lightning in a Bottle : Proven Lessons for Leading Change (2000) by David H. Baum
Out beyond ideas of right and wrong doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
As quoted in Architects of Peace : Visions of Hope in Words and Images (2002) by Michael Collopy, p. 109
Out beyond ideas of rightdoing
and wrongdoing
There is a field.
I will meet you there.
Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy : Individual, Collective and Organizational Learning Processes (2000) by Robert L. Cross and Sam B. Israelit
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about
language, ideas, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.
“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”
Chapter 18 (p. 308) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.”
Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 7 : Go Down, Matthew
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
As quoted in "The Scoreboard" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (August 13, 1960), p. 6
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>