If Only I May Grow: Firmer, Simpler,

Your Cravings As A Human Animal Do Not Become A Prayer Just Because It Is God Whom You Ask To Attend To Them.

It Is A Little Bit Humiliating When I Have To Say That Chou En-lai To Me Appears As The Most Superior Brain I Have So Far Met In The Field Of Foreign Politics... So Much More Dangerous Than You Imagine Because He Is So Much Better A Man Than You Have Ever Admitted.

It Is Easy To Be Nice, Even To An Enemy - From Lack Of Character.

Humility Is Just As Much The Opposite Of Self-abasement As It Is Of Self-exaltation.

So Rests The Sky Against The Earth. The Dark Still Tarn In The Lap Of The Forest. As A Husband Embraces His Wife's Body In Faithful Tenderness, So The Bare Ground And Trees Are Embraced By The Still, High, Light Of The Morning. I Feel An Ache Of Longing To Share In This Embrace, To Be United And Absorbed. A Longing Like Carnal Desire, But Directed Towards Earth, Water, Sky, And Returned By The Whispers Of The Trees, The Fragrance Of The Soil, The Caresses Of The Wind, The Embrace Of Water And Light. Content? No, No, No - But Refreshed, Rested - While Waiting.