“Let Ariel learn
a blessing for Caliban
and Caliban drink dew from the lotus
open upon the waters.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet
Conversation in Moscow, The Freeing of the Dust
Conversation in Moscow, The Freeing of the Dust
“Let Ariel learn
a blessing for Caliban
and Caliban drink dew from the lotus
open upon the waters.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet
Conversation in Moscow, The Freeing of the Dust
“The spirit drinking timelessness;
Touch, love, all senses”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"Not Palaces"(l. 12–16). . .
Context: Eye, gazelle, delicate wanderer,
Drinker of horizon’s fluid line;
Ear that suspends on a chord
The spirit drinking timelessness;
Touch, love, all senses...
Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker
The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
Context: The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate — each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.
“Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Symbol 7
The Symbols
Washington Gladden (1836–1918) American pastor
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 98.
Joan Baez (1941) American singer
"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part One"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)