I am become one with Nature.
I have watched the wheeling of the seasons until, to escape vertigo, I
picture myself as a fixed point, and see the spheres in their courses
revolve about me."
Mystic sayings, aphorisms oozed from him like resin from a pine.
"It is error to suppose that discomfort is holy. Holiness is harmony. Men
have lost sight of the sanctity of the body. Rightly considered,
indigestion is a great sin."
"Passion, which is a state of becoming, is not holy, for holiness is a
state of being. But it is noble, because it is a straining after
appeasement, which is a harmony.
"Man is an ape, or a god, but certainly a god in this, that he can make
himself either. It is by no means certain, however, that this potentiality
is not also possessed by the ape.
"Appeasement of passion is fulfilment of our being, which out of ferment
makes wine, though riot seeks rest."
He was not always so transcendental. Here we have him closer to the
matter.
"A woman when she loves is a seraph winged. When she does not she is a
chrysalis, a husk, or a shell. In love she follows the man, but appears to
fly him, as a shepherd goes before the sheep he is really driving.
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