"The clear of the forest is a center that one cannot always enter... It is another realm that a soul inhabits and guards."
"The clear of the forest is a center that one cannot always enter... It is another realm that a soul inhabits and guards."
"There is no need to search. This is the immediate lesson of the clear of the forest: do not seek it, do not seek anything from it. Nothing determined, nothing anticipated, nothing known."
"And there remains the nothingness and emptiness that the clear of the forest offers in response to what you seek. On the other hand, if you seek nothing, the offer will be unpredictable, unlimited."
"The clear now appears as a trembling mirror, a palpitating clarity that hardly allows anything to compose itself."
"And everything alludes, everything is allusion and everything is oblique, the very light that manifests itself as a reflection gives itself obliquely, but not smoothly as a sword."
"...a light that does not cease to descend and curve itself into every dark recess, infiltrating itself in this way, since it can only enter directly where our defenses are most hidden, by resorting to overwhelming violence."
Maria Zambrano