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Dante And Virgil In Hell (1850)

Francis Abernathy

"Mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time is something which defies spring and water, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible. Duality ceases to exist; there is no ego, no 'I,' and yet it's not at all like those horrid comparisons one sometimes hears in Eastern religions, the self being a drop of water swallowed by the ocean of the universe. It's more as if the universe expands to fill the boundaries of the self. You have no idea how pallid the workday boundaries of ordinary existence seem, after such an ecstasy."

"She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer." 

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of

Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to

make the sanest man go mad.”

~ Homer

I saw this garden in a dream, petals pink and leaves of green