In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once. Peter Matthiessen More Quotes by Peter Matthiessen More Quotes From Peter Matthiessen This world is painted on a wild dark metal Peter Matthiessen this-world dark world The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron. Peter Matthiessen space reality ideas In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. Peter Matthiessen fiction-and-nonfiction constraints telling-the-truth It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin. Peter Matthiessen taken rivers years When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks. Peter Matthiessen notebook pockets two I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. Peter Matthiessen black blood people I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail. Peter Matthiessen details writing thinking Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful? Peter Matthiessen leopards wonderful snow
