1 result for (book:nopr AND session:636 AND stemmed:am)
4/50 (8%)
grace
guilt
conscience
punishment
violation
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
Love perceives the grace in another. Like natural guilt, the state of grace is unconscious in the animals. It is protected. They take it for granted, not knowing what it is or what they do, yet it speaks through all their motions and they dwell in the ancient wisdom of its ways. They do not have conscious memory, again, but the instinctive memory of the cells and organs sustains them. All of this applies in degrees according to the species, and when I speak of conscious memory I am using words that are familiar to you — I mean a memory that can at any time look back through itself.
[... 14 paragraphs ...]
“Do not do this again,” is only the afterward message. I am placing these concepts within your time scheme because in your terms they were born out of it. But the fact is that all “time” is simultaneous.
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
Your body has within it the miraculous strength and creative energy with which, in your terms, it was born. You most probably take this to mean that I am implying the possibility of an unending state of youth. While youth can be physically “prolonged” far beyond its present duration, that is not what I am saying.
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
Am I speaking too softly?
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
