Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. —Taisen Deshimaru

 

Night Sea, 1963, Agnes Martin
oil, gold, canvas

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In my best moments I think "Life has passed me by” and I am content.

—Agnes Martin

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Light is a power. A great power, by which we exist, but which exists beyond our needs, in itself. Sunlight and starlight are time, and time is light. In the sunlight, in the days and years, life is. 

In a dark place life may call upon the light, naming it. But usually when you see a wizard name or call upon some thing, some object to appear, that is not the same, he calls upon no power greater than himself, and what appears is an illusion only. 

To summon a thing that is not there at all, to call it by speaking its true name, that is a great mastery, not lightly used. Not for mere hunger’s sake. 

Yarrow, your little dragon has stolen a cake.

―Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea 

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