The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos. - René Daumal

it is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.

Never halt on a shifting slope. Even if you think you have a firm foothold...

I am dead because I lack desire,
I lack desire because I think I possess.
I think I possess because I do not try to give.
In trying to give, you see that you have nothing;
Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself;
Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing:
Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become;
In desiring to become, you begin to live