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This desire is of the soul and it knows no limit. The language in this last paragraph now seems calmer and more certain. In the intervening years between these two valley experiences, his desire for natural beauty and immersion in a greater reality has never diminished. He has found a new grooved valley, this time in the Sussex South Downs, near the sea, and its discovery seems to add a deeper level of perception to the whole book. In the final paragraph of the book, the valley motif appears once more, perhaps with an even sharper clarity of meaning. I was intensely conscious of it I felt it I felt the presence of the immense powers of the universe…’ Lighting the broad river, the broad walls lighting the least speck of dust lighting the great heaven gleaming on my finger-nail. Burning on steadfast, and ever present as my thought. ‘Burning on, the great sun stood in the sky, heating the parapet, glowing steadfastly upon me as when I rested in the narrow valley grooved out in prehistoric times. It can be seen as a symbol or motif for his desire to become absorbed in a greater, limitless, non-personal reality. The autobiography returns to it more than once. This narrow, ‘grooved’ valley experience was clearly of major significance in Jefferies’ early life. Like a shuttle the mind shot to and fro the past and the present, in an instant.’ With all that time and power I prayed: that I might have in my soul the intellectual part of it the idea, the thought. The immense time lifted me like a wave rolling under a boat my mind seemed to raise itself as the swell of the cycles came it felt strong with the power of the ages. The dragon-fly which passed me traced a continuous descent from the fly marked on stone in those days. Alone with the sun which glowed on the work when it was done, I saw back through space to the old time of tree-ferns, of the lizard flying through the air, the lizard-dragon wallowing in sea foam, the mountainous creatures, twice-elephantine, feeding on land all the crooked sequence of life. How many, many years, how many cycles of years, how many bundles of cycles of years, had the sun glowed down thus on that hollow? Since it was formed how long? Since it was worn and shaped, groove-like, in the flanks of the hills by mighty forces which had ebbed.
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Burning, burning, the sun glowed on the sward at the foot of the slope where these thoughts burned into me. The short grass was dried grey as it grew by the heat the sun hung over the narrow vale as if it had been put there by hand. Sparrows chirped in the wheat at the verge above, their calls falling like the twittering of swallows from the air. The sky crossed from side to side, like a roof supported on two walls of green. ‘Sometimes I went to a deep, narrow valley in the hills, silent and solitary. His life is no longer personal – he is part of all that there is, and belongs to all that there is. I feel that the sides of the narrow valley help to ‘shut out’ the everyday concerns of his life, the memories and personal perspectives, allowing a concentration of mind on the blue sky, the earth, time and the power of the sun. The landscape in this case is chalk downland, where sharp valleys can suddenly cut into wide stretches of smooth, rolling surfaces. The following passage from Richard Jefferies’ autobiography, ‘The Story of My Heart’, provides a perfect example of how a particular landscape can induce a calm and creative state of mind. Malcolmdixonblog on “There is Another Way”: Eckhar…Ĭlivebennett796 on The Hawk in the Wind Reimagini… Robin Stapleford on “There is Another Way”: Eckhar… “There is Another Way”: Eckhart Tolle and Richard Jefferiesĭr Rebecca Welshman on “There is Another Way”: Eckhar….A vibrant living world: writing that never grows old.If you have the patience to scroll to the bottom and comment, all comments (and insults) are welcome. This is part of an ongoing experiment to determine how many people find articles by using word searches. What follows is a couple of lists of celebrities, along with every word in the English language (specificially, those allowed in a game of scrabble) with 8 letters or less.