[L, diary, ephēmeris] 1) BLOG

“And this, as I might have guessed, is how it is done. We give the Gods a name and they quicken in us, they rise in their glory and power and majesty out of minds, they move forth to act in the world beyond, changing us and it. So it is that the beings we are in the process of becoming will be drawn out of us. We have only to find the name and let its illumination fill us.  Beginning, always, with what is simple…

“This is the true meaning of transformation.  This is the real metamorphosis.  Our further selves are contained within us, as the leaves and blossoms are in the tree.  We have only to find the spring and release it…

“More and more…I have come to realize that this place is the true destination I have been seeking, and that my life here…is my true fate, the one I have spent my whole existence trying to escape.  We barely realize the annunciation when it comes, declaring:

‘Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance.  Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself.  It will look at first like a disaster, but is really good fortune in disguise, since fate too knows how to follow your evasions through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be.’

 

"So I admit openly to myself what I have known in my heart. I belong in this place now. I have made it mine. I am entering the dimensions of my self.”

—David Malouf—
AN IMAGINARY LIFE