The Bright Field, R.S. Thomas
I have seen the sun break throughto illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realise now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor…
true self/false self
The false self is your psychological creation of yourself in space and time. It comes from your early conditioning, family, roles, education, mind, culture, and religion. The false self is who you think you are! But thinking doesn’t make it so. The false self dies and passes away. Yet it is the raw material through…
Une difficulté est…
Une difficulté est une lumière / Une difficulté insurmontable est un soleil. A difficulty is a light/an insurmountable difficulty is a sun. – Paul Valéry from his prose notebooks
Edge of Atlantic 