The Background [07] the Sky, the Sea and the Sun

"You cannot, in human experience,
rush into the light.

You have to go through the twilight
into the broadening day

before the noon comes

and the full sun is upon the landscape."

Woodrow Wilson

The Background [06] the Sky, the Sea and the Moon

"One's mind has a way of making itself up

in the background,

and it suddenly becomes clear

what one means to do."

A. C. Benson

"In the dim background of mind

we know what we ought to be doing

but somehow we cannot start."

William James