Wonderful to see my favorite T. S. Eliot up at ivonprefontaine.com. Isn’t education and being an educator all about this?
“…the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time…”
I am recalled as well to a wonderful little piece by Ortega y Gasset called “Meditations on Hunting.” While I am no hunter in the sense of going after game, I grok the greater point in Eliot & Ortega that we are these beings who through our diversions explore & hunt for the meaningful.Related articles
- TS Eliot’s Prophetic Poem (patheos.com)
- Would Ortega Have Been a Blogger? (maverickphilosopher.typepad.com)
- Unseen TS Eliot sketches displayed for the first time (telegraph.co.uk)
As I rested today, I missed the opportunity to be out there exploring. T. S. Eliot eloquently spoke of this. I seek for and find when I explore the cyclical journey we call life. When I open my eyes, my heart, and my mind like a small child I find the apple-tree of my dreams. When I quiet my thoughts I can hear in the stillness between the waves. The gap between the stimulus and response grows in that way.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not…
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