their trade? Should we as humans feel less responsibility to
our logos than builders or pharmacists do? A logos we share
with the divine?
- Asia and Europe: distant recesses of the universe.
The ocean: a drop of water.Mount Athos: a molehill.The present: a split second in eternity.Minuscule, transitory, insignificant.36a. Everything derives from it—that universal mind—either
as effect or consequence. The lion’s jaws, the poisonous
substances, and every harmful thing—from thorns to mud...
are by-products of the good and beautiful. So don’t look at
them as alien to what you revere, but focus on the source that
all things spring from.
- If you’ve seen the present then you’ve seen everything—
as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The
same substance, the same form. All of it. - Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected,
of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another
and in sympathy with each other. This event is the
consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each