The radiance of a spark or of a star dances for your eye...

...And though there is no light without the eye, on other eyes this radiance would fall with different effect. Therefore let your heart affirm, “I love this radiance I see!” But may it never say, “Neither sun, nor spark, nor star have anything to do with me.”


Of what reality do you speak to fish or reptile; to gigantic animal, tiny insect, or bird; to a child or an old person; to one who sleeps or one who keeps watch in cold calculation or feverish terror? I say that the echo of the real murmurs or resounds according to the ear that hears, and that for other ears what you call “reality” would play a different song. Therefore let your heart affirm, “I love the reality that I build!”