Disguise Our Bondage As We Will, 'tis

I Have Plenty Of Machinery Around Me; What I Really Need Is A More Enchanting World In Which To Live And Work.

It's Important To Be Heroic, Ambitious, Productive, Efficient, Creative, And Progressive, But These Qualities Don't Necessarily Nurture Soul. The Soul Has Different Concerns, Of Equal Value: Downtime For Reflection, Conversation, And Reverie; Beauty That Is Captivating And Pleasuring; Relatedness To The Environs And To People; And Any Animal’s Rhythm Of Rest And Activity.

The Key To Seeing The World's Soul, And In The Process Wakening Our Own, Is To Get Over The Confusion By Which We Think That Fact Is Real And Imagination Is Illusion.

All That's Bright Must Fade, The Brightest Still The Fleetest; All That's Sweet Was Made But To Be Lost When Sweetest.

And The Heart That Is Soonest Awake To The Flowers Is Always The First To Be Touch'd By The Thorns.