The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original rel...ation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eyes seeking the response of eyes Bring out the stars, bring out the flowers,... Thus concentrating earth and skies So none need be afraid of size. All revelation has been ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to your word; for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou has...t prepared in the presence of all peoples, light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to thy people Israel."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside--from othe...rs. We do not accept it willingly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or t...hey told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double sign...ificance.... In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nation...s. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calcula...ting, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to ...know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirel...y different things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »