When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
What’s it like to be a human the bird asked I myself don’t know it’s being held prisoner by your skin while reaching infinity being captive of your scrap of time while touching eternity being hopelessly uncertain and helplessly hopeful
And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge. And he answered, saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.