Secret (special, study, silent) Spot Quotes

I love how you guys always pull quotes out of things you've read. The best thing I've gotten out of the Spartan challlenge is my attitude toward reading. Though I'm still slow, I actaully look forward to sitting down with my book. I also like to underline stuff in pencil and I quit using a bookmark. If I can't remember where I was I just read it again. So here are some words that always make me think of the secret spot, secret time, secret thought.

"I'm probably not a very good trader. I don't like to weigh the value of one thing against another. I don't think it's proper, for one thing, and I doubt it really can be done, anyway. But I know I made a good trade for that mast. I got the memory of a song, which is as good as the memory of another earth, and I learned why the island was there. The little rock was a compass-stone, a clock in the world where time was right, and I was happy there. The song is still here, you know. It's always here, resting in the wind. It can take a little time to find it, but you can do it when you're listening well. Just pull a bit of it down out of the wind and hear the part that is singing at the time. You'll probably never hear all of it, and you'll always hope it's not important that you do. It is important that you listen" - Gordon Bok (from Another Land Made of Water, 1979)

The [ ] takes trobles from you.
Takes worry and fear and illusion and anger and joy and joking and plans
and ambition and love form you.
Takes them, scatters them, gathers them, gives them back to you,
not so big or important as before.
You're not anyone really, you never were.
Who you thought you were when your head was too small for your illusions
But illusions aren't important now.
You don't have to be anything, even yourself
because yourself was just something you had to make up
and then you thought you had to carry it around with you.
What a relief to lay it down and walk away and forget it
Just to be part of what's around you is enough.

-Gordon Bok (part of an interlaced poem withing "Another Land Made of Water"