Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 8 (p. 119)
Poem Colin http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1527.html
“She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.”
VIII, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.
“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
Source: The Veneration of Life: Through the Disease to the Soul (1999), p. 9
Nītiśataka 2
Variant translation from K.M. Joglekar:
That woman about whom I constantly meditate has no affection for me; she, however, yearns after another who is attached to someone else; while a certain woman pines away for me. Fie on her, on him, on the God of Love, on that woman, and on myself.
Śatakatraya
