Nature did that, of course, just like it did to William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the wild northern Lake Country.īut upon returning to campus, my new panoptic worldview didn't wash wiith my profs. My own path to awakening began when I was twenty.įinding myself - in natural surroundings, way out in the country, a month before before the resumed hitting-of-the-books at uni was to begin - I momentarily got caught up in my Vedantic Oversoul.
Or, it's like the forgotten Chinese student in the primitive mystical East who asked the Master what his Secret was? Or like Dante's vision of the Eternal Rose of the Seventh Heaven. The Present Moment is Borges' Aleph: the Lost Centre from which all the present moments of all the worlds Radiate.
They just cannot be bested or improved by modern adaptations.Īnd so it is with the present moment itself. Some ancient volumes, like this one, contain the whole vast library of common-sense wisdom.
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