Ventana Canyon Panorama — Image by kenne
We shall not cease from exploration,
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot
Archive for the ‘Four Quarters’ Tag
“We shall not cease from exploration, . . . “ 2 comments
There Is Clarity In The Moment, Only To Be Followed By A Non Sequitur 2 comments
Brittlebush In Ventana Canyon — Image by kenne
“As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated . . . “
Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) Blossoms — Image by kenne
“You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there,
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not.”
— T. S. Eliot
Becoming is Superior to Being 