Everyday SpiritsState University of New York Press, 1993 M07 1 - 195 pages Transformation of being begins exactly where one is. This is, for most of us, at home. We are acted upon by objects familiar to us, influenced in unfelt ways, and moved toward a destiny proper to a responsible being. Dwelling is complemented by journeying. To live in a home is to journey on the path that leads through the home to a world beyond. A householder becomes a traveler. A traveler is a seeker after new impressions, fresh impressions of a reality that beckons. Opening to the commonplace—what stands in front of us on the daily round—we are open to the call to respond to our role as mediator between heaven and earth. Everyday Spirits is a book about self-perception. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 26
Page xv
... darker , and more gravid part of us . In join- ing the ordinary and the extraordinary , both are transformed . Heaven is thereby renewed , as a flower is by the bee that pollinates it . The law of immiscibility takes on a different ...
... darker , and more gravid part of us . In join- ing the ordinary and the extraordinary , both are transformed . Heaven is thereby renewed , as a flower is by the bee that pollinates it . The law of immiscibility takes on a different ...
Page 5
... dark for reflection . Noctural baptism by an intelligence greater than the sum of the cogito plus our unconscious urgings shows the true breadth of will - so rarely glimpsed in bright daylight . So wide and deep is will ( I do not say ...
... dark for reflection . Noctural baptism by an intelligence greater than the sum of the cogito plus our unconscious urgings shows the true breadth of will - so rarely glimpsed in bright daylight . So wide and deep is will ( I do not say ...
Page 6
... dark . A distance that separates desire from its object , familiar in the daily round , takes on grotesque proportions in twilight consciousness . The paralysis of being neither asleep nor awake reveals , by its negation of all possible ...
... dark . A distance that separates desire from its object , familiar in the daily round , takes on grotesque proportions in twilight consciousness . The paralysis of being neither asleep nor awake reveals , by its negation of all possible ...
Page 17
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Page 29
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Alcibiades angels Aristotle become blink body bowl breath brings child craft creature dark death Descartes desert desire dream dwelling empty Eumaeus everyday spirits existence eyes fear feel fire forget frontier guard Frost Gawain gives gods grip ground grows guest heart Heraclitus Hermes hidden hiding holds householder householder's human hunter immiscible immortal infant Jack Frost keep knot knowledge knows ladder Lao Tzu laugh laughter leaves light listen lives look lullaby magical Mahakasyapa Maimed King matter means measure memory mind move nature ness never Odysseus one's oneself ourselves philosopher Plato play reality realm reason reticence reveals river rope secret seek shadow Siddhartha sleep Socrates solitude speak stick suffering T. S. Eliot takes tells things thought tion toast true lover's knot truth vision walk wander wash watch wild geese wind wine