T.S Eliot – Aug 2, Iyengar III

Every time I dip into the Four Quartets, I find something new. I loved this passage from Dry Salvages, about being so absorbed in the moment that Incarnation occurs. We might also call this experience the State of Yoga.

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For most of us, there is only the unattended

Moment, the moment in and out of time,

The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,

The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning

Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply

That it is not heard at all, but you are the music

While the music lasts. These are only hints and guesses,

Hints followed by guesses; and the rest

Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is

Incarnation.