The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. pg 99
Monday, June 22, 2009
The Mind
Annie Dillard, Teaching A Stone To Talk, from the essay Total Eclipse. Harper and Row Publishers 1982
Labels:
Annie Dillard,
awareness,
death,
distraction,
grasping,
illusion,
life,
Love and Living
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