Sublime

Istigkeit—wasn’t that the word Meister Eckhart liked to use? “Is-ness.”

Bastian Perrot of Calw,

reconciled

amethyst

He was a seeker, but retrogressive, he was a romantic. And suddenly I realized that it was just what he had been to me and had given me that he could not be and give to himself. He had guided me to a point on the road beyond which he, the guide, could not go.

He looked upon people differently than he had before. He was less shrewd, less proud, and instead was warmer, more curious, and more engaging. When he ferried ordinary travelers (childlike people, businessmen, warriors, or women), they did not seem as alien to him as they once had. He understood them and shared their lives, which were not guided by

Den Lebensanteil, den ich den finsteren Mächten entzog, brachte ich den lichten zum Opfer. Nicht Lust war mein Ziel, sondern Reinheit, nicht Glück, sondern Schönheit und Geistigkeit.

In this way Gotama strolled towards the town collecting alms, and the two Samanas recognized him simply by the perfection of his peace, by the stillness of his being in which there was no seeking, no desire, no imitation, no attempts at being seen—only light and peace.