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A Poem Is Its Own Self
I no more know what my novel is about than I know what my dreams are about. Ultimately, a story is its own self, and not about something other than itself. Just as a poem is its own self and not about anything else. This to me is the crucial difference.
— Russell Banks
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“It is possible the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and lovingkindness, a community practicing mindful living.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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“These archetypal beings — to the extent that I was able to experience them clearly at all — were vast living structures on a completely different order of causality, in a different order of time. I could not wrap my mind around them, I could not see them cognitively coherently. I experienced these enormous living intelligences, and the best my mind could do to give them some type of representation was to see them as galaxies….
From that point on, from archetypal reality and beyond, everything was about going into deeper and deeper levels of what is real. In the world we’re not used to thinking of physical reality being on surface-real, and that there are structures that are more deeply real, but I think that quantum theory is comfortable with that…
