…in two poems by Wordsworth. One is called Expostulation and Reply, and the other is called The Table's Turned. In the first poem, Wordsworth, William is sitting on a stone by the side of a lake, and his friend Matthew comes to him and says, Why do you…

…I can use this quotation from Wordsworth, which is quite good, you know, about the expostulation and reply, Matthew comes in and sees William sitting on an old grey stone and says, why do you sit like this? You sit as though no one had ever existed…

…none had lived before you. And then he has this wonderful phrase, the eye cannot choose but see, we cannot... This is William answering and justifying himself for not reading books and studying conceptually. The eye cannot choose but see, we cannot bid the…

…the literature. For example, I suddenly discovered, one time I took it, the meaning of a phrase that had always puzzled me in William Blake. He said, it's a phrase which goes like this, gratitude is heaven itself. Well, I did not think about what this…

…say, taking a rise out of his own people. Yes. One of the great positive utopias, of course, or two of them, rather, are William Morris's The News from Nowhere and a Dream of John Bull. And they stem out of a positive idealistic belief in the future…

…in two poems by Wordsworth. One is called Expostulation and Reply, and the other is called The Table's Turned. In the first poem, Wordsworth, William is sitting on a stone by the side of a lake, and his friend Matthew comes to him and says, Why do you…

…of producing something which really works. In this context, I would like to mention the extremely interesting chapters in Dr. William Sargent's Battle for the Mind, where he points out how intuitively some of the great religious teachers, leaders of the…

…the only possible universe. There are other very strange universes which some people spontaneously inhabit. I mean, a man like William Blake obviously inhabits an extremely different universe from that which most people inhabit. And I think it's probably very…

…as I say, are a statement and a kind of program of what needs to be done in this nonverbal field. The poem begins, Why, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone And dream your time away?…

…in this nonverbal field. The poem begins, Why, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone And dream your time away? Where are your books, that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind?…

…I may, I sit upon this old grey stone and dream my time away. In the companion poem, in the table's turn, it is William, the poet, who takes the offensive against Matthew, the scholarly man. And he begins by reproaching him for being a bookworm. And he…

…art. Close up those barren leaves. Come forth and bring with you a heart that watches and receives. Well, it's quite clear that both William and Matthew were right, that there has to be Books, there have to be books, there has to be study on the purely…

…study on the purely verbal level, there has to be an acquaintance with all that our culture has bequeathed to us. But also, William is completely right, that there also has to be a wise passiveness, that we have to be purely receptive, that we must be…

…be balanced by activity. But activity alone is not enough nor is inspiration alone enough. There has to be both. There has to be both William and Matthew. And in the words of the gospel, there has to be both the way of Martha and the way of Mary. But…

…in prejudice can be brought about. And, of course, one of the basic problems here is expressed by an epigram of William Blake's where he says, Damn braces, bless relaxes. the meaning of which is, of course, that there's a higher psychological dividend…

…in achieving what they regard as the highest end, the union with God, the the identification with the divine. You get in William Blake, who was essentially a mystic and who was apt to express himself in rather violent terms about those he disagreed with,…