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Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single sycamore. You are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain…you call to you all your sad captains, and give the order to halt. You have seen the tree with the lights in it, haven’t you? You must have. Xerxes buffeted on a plain, ambition drained in a puff. Your men are bewildered…there is nothing to catch the eye in this flatness, nothing but a hollow, hammering sky, a waste of sedge in the lee of windblown rocks, a meager ribbon of scrub willow tracing a slumbering watercourse…and that sycamore. You saw it; you will stand rapt and mute, exalted, remembering or not remembering over a period of days to shade your head with your robe. “He had its form wrought upon a medal of gold to help him remember it the rest of his life.” We all ought to have a goldsmith following us around. But it goes without saying, doesn’t it, Xerxes, that no gold medal worn around your neck will bring back the glad hour, keep those lights kindled so long as you live, forever present? Pascal saw it; he grabbed pen and paper and scrawled the one word, and wore it sewn in his shirt the rest of his life. I don’t know what Pascal saw. I saw a cedar. Xerxes saw a sycamore.

Xav sprinkled olive oil on his lettuce. 'Lola was very particular that it all had to fit properly.' 'Lola?' squeaked Diamond. I wanted to warn her not to rise to the bait Xav was dangling in front of her but it was too late. Xav added some Parmesan and pepper. 'Suspicious, Diamond? You should be. This is a bachelor party I'm organizing, not a school outing, and it is going to tick all of Trace's boxes. Lola is either a very efficient water sports instructor or an exotic dancing girl; I'll leave it your imagination.' I rolled my eyes at Diamond. 'Myabe she's both. I mean the guys will really go for that, I guess. Don't worry,Di, Luigi and his crew will not disappoint us girls.' Luigi was in fact Contessa Nicoletta's little bespectacled chef with whom I had been consulting about the menu for Friday, but the Benedicts weren't to know that. 'He has promised to provide something suitably spicy for our tastes.

Yesterday I watched a curious nightfall. The cloud ceiling took on a warm tone, deepened, and departed as if drawn on a leash. I could no longer see the fat snow flying against the sky; I could see it only as it fell before dark objects. Any object at a distance –like the dead, ivy-covered walnut I see from the bay window- looked like a black and white frontispiece seen through a sheet of white tissue. It was like dying, this watching the world recede into deeper and deeper blues while the snow piled; silence swelled and extended, distance dissolved, and soon only concentration at the largest shadows let me make out the movement of falling snow, and that too failed. The snow on the yard was blue as ink, faintly luminous; the sky violet. The bay window betrayed me, and started giving me back the room’s lamps. It was like dying, that growing dimmer and deeper and then going out.

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxygen. Wouldn’t it be simpler just to rough in a slab of chemicals, a green acre of goo? You are a man, a retired railroad worker who makes replicas as a hobby. You decide to make a replica of one tree, the longleaf pine your great-grandfather planted- just a replica- it doesn’t have to work. How are you going to do it? How long do you think you might live, how good is your glue? For one thing, you are going to have to dig a hole and stick your replica trunk halfway to China if you want the thing to stand up. Because you will have to work fairly big; if your replica is too small, you’ll be unable to handle the slender, three-sided needles, affix them in clusters of three in fascicles, and attach those laden fascicles to flexible twigs. The twigs themselves must be covered by “many silvery-white, fringed, long-spreading scales.” Are your pine cones’ scales “thin, flat, rounded at the apex?” When you loose the lashed copper wire trussing the limbs to the trunk, the whole tree collapses like an umbrella. You are a sculptor. You climb a great ladder; you pour grease all over a growing longleaf pine. Next, you build a hollow cylinder around the entire pine…and pour wet plaster over and inside the pine. Now open the walls, split the plaster, saw down the tree, remove it, discard, and your intricate sculpture is ready: this is the shape of part of the air. You are a chloroplast moving in water heaved one hundred feet above ground. Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen in a ring around magnesium…you are evolution; you have only begun to make trees. You are god- are you tired? Finished?

You can go from seeking to seeker when you stop bouncing. Set a plan for change and take the risks you need to take without worrying about failing.

You must hunger for spiritual food.

Your mind is like a spinnin’ wheel, rotatin’ endlessly and pointlessly until threads are fed in, when it starts producing yarn. Information is the foundation to all rational thought. Seek it out. Collect it assiduously. Stock the lumber yard of your mind with as many facts as you can fit in there. Do not attempt to distinguish between important facts and trivial facts: they are all potentially important

You must have a vivid imagination of what you seek.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.

All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

I love rollercoasters, thrill-seeking, all of that is fun.

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

I'd searched everywhere for this thing called love. I went through life seeking something that would be the ultimate.

If you are seeking the right path, you are already on the right path.

If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.

Make your blade a water-seeking missle

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.