D H Lawrence
Maria Popova Blog
If you live by the cosmos
You look into the cosmos for a clue
If you live by a personal god
You pray to Him
If you are rational, you think about things over
But it all amounts to the same thing in the end
Prayer or thought or watching the flight of birds
It is all the same process, ultimately of divination
All it depends on is the amount of true , sincere religious concentration
You can bring to bear on your object
An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it
Will bring it's own answer.
And you choose that object to concentrate upon
Which will best focus your consciousness.
Every real discovery made every serious and significant decision ever reached,
Was reached and made by divination
The soul stirs and makes an act of pure attention,
And that is a discovery
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It is the same with the study of the stars
Or the sky of the stars
Whatever object will bring consciousness into a state of pure attention
In a time of perplexity ,
Will also give back an answer to the perplexity!!!
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