"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

05 February 2016

Reveries.


How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes. Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined.  There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history.  These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.  In reimagining them, we have the possibility of recovering the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

Gaston Bachelard

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