Constellations Of The Heart.
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ferineEnlarging my heart and mind in the most stellar way...
(more wisdom from Algernon Blackwood's A Prisoner In Fairyland behind the cut):
(from page 212):
"Belief is constructive. It is what people are rather than what they preach that affects others. Two strangers meet and bow and separate without a word, yet each has changed; neither leaves the other quite as he was before. In the society of children, moreover, one believes everything in the world -- for the moment. Belief is constructive and creative; it is doubt and cynicism that destroy. In the presence of a child these latter are impossible. This was the wonder and joy of Fairyland."
(from page 216-217):
"Our waking hours are the clothes we dress the spirit in after its nightly journeys and activities. Imagination does not create so much as remember. Then, by transforming, it reveals."
"In my fairy-tale we shall all see stars," he laughed, "and we shall all get 'out'. For our thoughts will determine the kind of experience and adventure we have when the spirit is free and unhampered. And contrariwise, the kind of things we do at night -- in sleep, in dream -- will determine our behavior during the day. There's the importance of thinking rightly; you see. Out of the body is eternal, and thinking is more than doing -- it's more complete. The waking days are brief intervals of test that betray the character of our hidden deeper life. We are judged in sleep. We last forever and ever. In the day, awake, we stand before the easel on which our adventures of the night have painted those patterns which are the very structure of our outer life's activity. In the day we forget, of course -- as a rule, and most of us -- but we must follow the pattern just the same, unwittingly, because we can’t help it. It's the mould we’ve made."
"… We’ll all get 'out' in sleep and go about the village together in a bunch, helping, soothing, cleaning up, and putting everybody straight, so that when they wake up they'll wonder why in the world they feel so hopeful, strong, and happy all of a sudden. We'll put thoughts of beauty into them -- beauty, you remember, which 'is a promise of happiness'."
"-- that the sources of our life lie hid with beauty very very far away, and that our real, big, continuous life is spiritual -- out of the body, as I shall call it. The waking-day life uses what it can bring over from this enormous under-running sea of universal consciousness where we're all together, splendid, free, untamed, and where thinking is creation and we feel we know each other face to face? See? Sympathy the great solvent? All linked together by thought as stars are by their rays."
(more wisdom from Algernon Blackwood's A Prisoner In Fairyland behind the cut):
(from page 212):
"Belief is constructive. It is what people are rather than what they preach that affects others. Two strangers meet and bow and separate without a word, yet each has changed; neither leaves the other quite as he was before. In the society of children, moreover, one believes everything in the world -- for the moment. Belief is constructive and creative; it is doubt and cynicism that destroy. In the presence of a child these latter are impossible. This was the wonder and joy of Fairyland."
(from page 216-217):
"Our waking hours are the clothes we dress the spirit in after its nightly journeys and activities. Imagination does not create so much as remember. Then, by transforming, it reveals."
"In my fairy-tale we shall all see stars," he laughed, "and we shall all get 'out'. For our thoughts will determine the kind of experience and adventure we have when the spirit is free and unhampered. And contrariwise, the kind of things we do at night -- in sleep, in dream -- will determine our behavior during the day. There's the importance of thinking rightly; you see. Out of the body is eternal, and thinking is more than doing -- it's more complete. The waking days are brief intervals of test that betray the character of our hidden deeper life. We are judged in sleep. We last forever and ever. In the day, awake, we stand before the easel on which our adventures of the night have painted those patterns which are the very structure of our outer life's activity. In the day we forget, of course -- as a rule, and most of us -- but we must follow the pattern just the same, unwittingly, because we can’t help it. It's the mould we’ve made."
"… We’ll all get 'out' in sleep and go about the village together in a bunch, helping, soothing, cleaning up, and putting everybody straight, so that when they wake up they'll wonder why in the world they feel so hopeful, strong, and happy all of a sudden. We'll put thoughts of beauty into them -- beauty, you remember, which 'is a promise of happiness'."
"-- that the sources of our life lie hid with beauty very very far away, and that our real, big, continuous life is spiritual -- out of the body, as I shall call it. The waking-day life uses what it can bring over from this enormous under-running sea of universal consciousness where we're all together, splendid, free, untamed, and where thinking is creation and we feel we know each other face to face? See? Sympathy the great solvent? All linked together by thought as stars are by their rays."
