Judy writes snipped: In other words: He's very clear--remarkably clear-- that it's not that he's suddenly realized that the earth is really nothing but a "congregation of vapours," or that other people have no more value than dust. He's not passing judgment on the earth and human beings, he's saying there's something wrong *with him* that he can't take pleasure in their magnificence.
TomT: The inability to take pleasure from the ever changing relative is also another good description of the Dark Night of the Soul. Nothing in the relative does it anymore. NO THING. Stuck between the old mind habits of the relative and not quite firmly established in the wholeness. Tough place to be. great read http://www.themystic.org/print/dark-night.htm PS Thanks for both quotes Judy. There is a nice piece in Collision with the Infinite where Susan Segal surmises that most of Shakespeare was his attempt to live a life without and I or me. Quite well done.
