tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post3891465443105361519..comments2024-03-29T11:56:50.983+00:00Comments on A K Haart: A questionA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-70797152604041814922015-09-23T17:11:28.890+01:002015-09-23T17:11:28.890+01:00Sam - "when the mind stops questing, we forge...Sam - "when the mind stops questing, we forget what it was that we wanted"<br /><br />Well put. Even if we don't stop, the quest so easily becomes trivial.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-13861717841764553822015-09-22T20:46:02.886+01:002015-09-22T20:46:02.886+01:00Adam Nicolson, writing about how appealing and inv...Adam Nicolson, writing about how appealing and inviting his Hebridean islands (The Shiants) look on a lovely spring morning. (For much of the year, of course, they are hell to live on or get to. The best one can do is hunker down and let the awfulness pass...)<br /><br />"This moment of ecstatic ease is the significant historical fact. Anywhere that can be reached on a calm day will be reached. What matters is the invitation, not the threat, and if there is an opening, people will take it. This is why the Shiants are as much part of the human world as anywhere else..."<br /><br />To the questing mind, anything looks good. Trouble is, when the mind stops questing, we forget what it was that we wanted. Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.com