“Rest and Activity”
“His lover was perfect whether she ate or refrained from eating. The butterfly was fine landed or in flight. The nuthatch charmed on the higher branch as she had on the lower one. The branches pleased motionless or swaying to the tune of the summer breeze. A symphony includes an adagio as well as an allegro. A painting can be as quiet as a Constable or as loud as a Van Gogh. Everyone had noticed, and paid especial attention to, the soft quietness of the earlier moment, but, in his Consciousness, the surface liveliness of the present one did nothing to disturb the genius of its underlying Light.”