- Christopher P. Cranch (1813 - 1892)
"Live, you say, in the present;
Live only in the present.
But I don’t want the present, I want reality;
I want things that exist, not time that measures them.
What is the present?
It’s something relative to the past and the future.
It’s a thing that exists in virtue of other things existing.
I only want reality, things without the present.
I don’t want to include time in my scheme.
I don’t want to think about things as present;
I don’t want to separate them from themselves,
treating them as present.
I shouldn’t even treat them as real.
I should treat them as nothing.
I should see them, only see them;
See them till I can’t think about them.
See them without time, without space,
To see, dispensing with everything but what you see.
And this is the science of seeing, which isn’t a science."
- Alberto Caeiro (1889 - 1915)
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
"There are many faiths, but the spirit is one
— in me, and in you, and in him. So that
if everyone believes himself, all will be united;
everyone be himself and all will be as one."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Resurrection
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