Big Sur And the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“On the surface there is something not only quixotic but paradoxical about “the part of fortune.” One always likes to think he earned his good fortune, or that he made the most of the breaks which chance presented. Myself, I have come to believe that through being receptive, keeping one’s mind and heart open—showing faith and trust, in other words—one’s desires, or prayers, are realized. By prayer I do not mean asking, hoping, begging or bartering for that which one desires but, without formulat...ing it, living the thought—“Thy will be done!” In short, acknowledging wholeheartedly to ourselves that, whatever the situation we find ourselves in, we are to regard it as an opportunity and a privilege as well as a challenge.
Up to a certain point in my life I have known more ups and downs, I do believe, than fall to the lot of the ordinary man. About the time I moved into the Villa Seurat (1934), I became aware that the seismographic disturbances, so to speak, were diminishing.MoreLess
Up to a certain point in my life I have known more ups and downs, I do believe, than fall to the lot of the ordinary man. About the time I moved into the Villa Seurat (1934), I became aware that the seismographic disturbances, so to speak, were diminishing.MoreLess
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