Sunday, July 29, 2007

Seekers


Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions,

preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted

with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later

does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn.

The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in

a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise.

After that day . . . we become seekers.

Peter Matthiessen

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