The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
The end is where we start from.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.
Only through time time is conquered
Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
or simply: