psalms on Things

The search for the good life, which so often is defined in terms of “things” and the means to get as many “things” as possible, has turned into a dead end as more and more people have more and more.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and ...

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

All profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence. . . . Silence is the general consecration of the universe.