Consequently, he who wants to have right without wrong,
order without disorder,
does not understand the principles
of heaven and earth.
He does not know how
things hang together. –Chuang Tzu

And yet, and yet– to deny the succession of time, to deny the self, to deny the universe, are measures of outward despair and inner consolation. Our lot… is not terrible because it is unreal; it is terrible because it is irreversible… Time is the substance of which I am made. Time is a river that bears me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that ravages me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, alas, is real.

–Borges

In regard to their own movement

The stars we track have no inkling.

They’re just burning.

Is the willow less then winter?

God’s a far cry and busy

Counting dead ants, dead stars.

In regard to its own movement the willow tree

Knows less and less.

Now and then now and then

I forget what I am saying

To myself, often

When you touch me,

Even if we are just wandering down this street

On the surface of a planet

Turning through the fire.

–James Galvin

I’d learned to live outside, in weather, under the changing sky, and so my dreams lived, too. –C.L. Rawlins

It had been a wonderful dream, but now all that lingered was the memory. …It is strange how when a dream is fulfilled there is little left but doubt. –Tom Hornbein

The landscape was there, and more than ever he felt he could not reach it. The rocks and the sky were everywhere, ready to absolve him, but as always he carried the obstacle within him. –Paul Bowles

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. –Charles Lindbergh

only dreaming

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. –Yeats

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