Saturday, January 02, 2010

The Bird Fights Its Way Out of the Egg

The surrender to Nature's irrational, strangely confused formations produces in us a feeling of inner harmony with the force responsible for these phenomena. We soon fall prey to the temptation of thinking of them as being our own moods, our own creations, and see the boundaries separating us from Nature begin to quiver and dissolve. We become acquainted with that state of mind in which we are unable to decide whether the images on our retina are the result of impressions coming from without or from within. Nowhere as in this exercise can we discover so easily and simply to what extent we are creative, to what extent our soul partakes of the constant creation of the world. For it is the same indivisible divinity that is active through us and in Nature, and if the outside world were to be destroyed, a single one of us would be capable of rebuilding it: mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and flower, yes, every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

From 'Demian' by Herman Hesse

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Jupiter Family said...
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bork hams said...

one of my fav's... Was someone talking shit and you had 2 remove it.

Annalee said...

yeah just dumb things from strangers...solicitations

A-game said...

consiousness creates reality and not the other way around- Seth