The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
林孝彦 HAYASHI Takahiko 2008
カムイユカラ(1)/金の滴降る降るまわり
kamuy yukar (1)/Gold drops fall fall all around
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wood engraving
(via gacougnol)
林孝彦 HAYASHI Takahiko 2008