“ The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
“ Sometimes in the evening on Summer days,Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seemsLike there’s a light breeze blowing for a minuteBut the trees are unmovingIn every leaf of their leavesAnd our fe… Alberto Caeiro
“ If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think. Alberto Caeiro
“ I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant. Alberto Caeiro
“ One day when God fell asleepAnd the Holy Ghost went off flying,He got into a box of miracles and stole three.With the first he made it so that no one would know he had run away.With the second he made… Alberto Caeiro
“ Let’s be simple and calm,Like brooks and trees,And God will love us by makingBeautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,And give us greenness in his spring,And a river for us to go to when we e… Alberto Caeiro
“ Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. Charles Hartshorne
“ That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams me… Alberto Caeiro
“ I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought. Alberto Caeiro
“ Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.Each thing only reminds us of what it isAnd it’s only what nothing else is.The fact that it’s it separates it from every other t… Alberto Caeiro
“ On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up. Alberto Caeiro
“ I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing,To not ever feel myself living,To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected. Alberto Caeiro
“ Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.They’re things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from the back of my… Alberto Caeiro
“ The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank. Alberto Caeiro
“ I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life. Alberto Caeiro
“ When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confi… Dag Hammarskjold
“ Yes: I exist inside my body.I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a sto… Alberto Caeiro
“ If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing.I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people don’t have.I was happy because I didn’t ask fo… Alberto Caeiro
“ A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy talesActs like a sick god, but like a god.Because even though he affirms that what doesn’t exist exists,He knows things exist, that he exists,He… Alberto Caeiro
