existential outlook | between the lines

The refuge of my doubts

 

Wanting the significance that cause and effect

might have (we see it in little things where it is)

not seeing it in any place

important to us (it is in our lives but in ways

 

that deny each other) and the totality,

I suppose, is what I mean—it isn’t there—

we look around: the possibilities,

dreams and diversions, whatever else there is.

 

》William Bronk, The Effect of Cause Despaired

 

Sirius (instrumental) - The Alan Parsons Project

 

If you look for the Truth outside yourself,

it gets farther and farther away.

 

Today, walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.

 

It is the same as me, yet I am not it.

 

Only if you understand it in this way

will you merge with the way things are.

 

《 Tung-Shan ... Paths of Water

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