Under the trees . problems. The mind of a Shakespearemust often, forsaking the busy world ofactuality, meditate in the twilight whichseems to release the soul of things seen,and, veiling the actual, reveal the realitiesof existence. Revery becomes of the highest impor-tance when it substitutes for definite think-ing that deep and silent meditation in whichalone the soul comes to know itself andpierces the wonderful movement of thingsabout it to its source and principle. Oneof Amiels magical phrases is that in whichhe describes revery as the Sunday of thesoul. Toil over, care banished, the worl
Under the trees . problems. The mind of a Shakespearemust often, forsaking the busy world ofactuality, meditate in the twilight whichseems to release the soul of things seen,and, veiling the actual, reveal the realitiesof existence. Revery becomes of the highest impor-tance when it substitutes for definite think-ing that deep and silent meditation in whichalone the soul comes to know itself andpierces the wonderful movement of thingsabout it to its source and principle. Oneof Amiels magical phrases is that in whichhe describes revery as the Sunday of thesoul. Toil over, care banished, the worldforgotten, one communes with that whichis eternal. In the long course of centuriesthe forests are as short-lived as the flowers;all visible forms are but momentary ex-pressions of the creative force. In the workof the greatest mind all spoken and writtenthoughts are but partial and passing utter-ances of a life of whose volume and move-ment they afford only half-comprehendedhints. After a Shakespeare has written. v/ mu thirty immortal plays he must still feel thatwhat was deepest in him is is that below all expression of lifewhich remains forever unspoken and un-speakable ; it is ours, but we cannot shareit with others; we drop our plummets intoits depths in vain. It is deeper than ourthought, and it is only at rare moments,when we surrender ourselves to ourselves,that the sense of what it contains andmeans fills us with a sudden and overpower-ing consciousness of immortality. Out ofthis deeper life all great thoughts rise intoconsciousness, losing much by imprison-ment in any form of speech, but still bring-ing with them indubitable evidence of theirmore than royal birth. From time to time,like the elder race of prophets, they enterinto our speech and renew the fading senseof the divinity of life, and so, through in-dividual souls, the deeper truths are retoldfrom generation to generation. As one meditates in this evening hour,the darkness has gathered over th
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