“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.” Haruki Murakami
And, sure, occasionally, a really, really big reality.
“Better than a thousand sayings
Made up of useless words
Is one word of meaning
Which calms you to hear it.” Anonymous
How about this: I won’t say it if you don’t make me.
“When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.” Rollo May
Existence, he called it.
“Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.
What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.” David Markson
Or, here:
“Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic ‘feeling’ about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes ‘pick up’ accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.” Colin Wilson
Ask me to explain this better – a hell of a lot better – than he does.
“Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something else
They’d have done it." Alberto Caeiro