Liber Neptuni - Chapter 38

Verses

The seeker asked for a shore. The teacher pointed to the hand that was reaching.

If you flee the dream, you are still obeying the dream.

A wave said, I am lost. The sea did not answer separately.

Blessed is the one who survives a beautiful vision without founding a religion around it.

You call the world fog because you want another world to be clear.

Find the one to whom clarity would appear.

The cat saw its face in water, touched the water, and abandoned philosophy before noon.

When two mirrors face each other, infinity appears cheaply.

The kingdom is not beneath the ocean, for beneath and above belong to the map.

The drunkard and the mystic both lose boundaries; only one may remember to examine who lost them.

Do not make an idol of emptiness. Empty idols are still idols.

The pearl is not hidden by the shell; the thought of possession is the shell.

Whoever says I have become the Infinite has kept one word too many.

Be still, not so the sea will calm, but so you can see whether you were ever the storm.