There is one other thing to know...when you have expressed yourself to the fullest, then and only then will it dawn upon you that everything has already been expressed, not in words alone but in deed, and that all you need really do is say Amen!
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Several times now I have stressed the fact that whatever “it” is one gets here at Big Sur, one gets it harder, faster, straighter than one would elsewhere. I come back to it again. I say, the people here are fundamentally no different from the people elsewhere. Their problems are basically the same as those who inhabit the cities, the jungles, the desert or the vast steppes. The greatest problem is not how to get along with one’s neighbor but how to get along with one’s self. Trite, you say. But true, nevertheless.
We are always in two worlds at once, and neither of them is the world of reality. One is the world we think we are in, the other the world we would like to be in.
Things not only look different, they are different, when perfect sight is restored. To see things whole is to be whole. The fellow who is out to burns things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are.
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Develop interest in life as you see it: in people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.