Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
“But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
Variant: There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
30 December 1850
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship. Each star passes but once in the night through the meridian over our heads and shines there but an instant; so, in the heaven of the mind each thought touches its zenith but once, and in that moment all its brilliancy and all its greatness culminate. Artist, poet, or thinker, if you want to fix and immortalize your ideas or your feelings, seize them at this precise and fleeting moment, for it is their highest point. Before it, you have but vague outlines or dim presentiments of them. After it you will have only weakened reminiscence or powerless regret; that moment is the moment of your ideal.
From an unspecified KPFA-FM radio show program.
[Peter, Waldman, Back to Earth: Jerry Brown, the Voice of New-Age Populism, Gets Down to Business, Wall Street Journal, 10 August 1999]
1999
"My Friend Poet. Mount Athos.", Ch. 19, p. 215
Report to Greco (1965)
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean [Episode 1]
“It is certain that if God is to be
born in the soul
it must turn back to eternity”
Sermons
Context: It is certain that if God is to be
born in the soul
it must turn back to eternity….
It must turn in toward itself with all
is might, must recall itself,
and concentrate all its faculties within itself,
the lowest as well as the highest.
All its dissipated powers must be gathered up into one, because unity is It is certain that if God is to be born in the soul it must turn back to eternity strength.
