光の図書館
光についての本を、日付ではなくテーマごとに集めています。
An Appeal to All that Doubt
ローは疑いを抱く人々に語りかけ、火のイメージへと戻る。思考で言い表せるものの先で、何がある生を目覚めさせるのかを言おうとする。本書はその日の一文を少し先へ進めるが、それが読む人に何を意味するかを代わりに決めることはない。
Amazon で見るCenturies of Meditations
トラハーンは世界を見つめ、自分のもとへ届くもののための言葉を探す。海も星も遠くにとどまらず、その生き方の中に場所を得る。『瞑想の世紀』は、読む人が自分のまなざしを感じてみるための空間を開く。
Amazon で見るMysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
アンダーヒルは、光へと向かった多くの生の記録を集めている。歩みは響き合っても、一つにはならない。ブレイクの二行のそばで読むと、同じ光も人ごとに異なる仕方で受け取られることが見えてくる。
Amazon で見るPoems from the Divan of Hafiz
A fourteenth-century poet of Shiraz wrote these, and Gertrude Bell’s English keeps both of his habits at once: he means the wine cup and he means God, and he does not choose between them.
Amazon で見るPseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works
Dionysius wrote in Greek some fifteen hundred years ago and signed himself with a name that was already centuries old, which is one way of saying the light was never his. This volume holds all of his surviving work, and the long fourth chapter on light is where the portrait comes from.
Amazon で見るRevelations of Divine Love
ノリッジのジュリアンは、個人的な経験を言葉にした。その記録は、何世紀もの時を越え、繰り返される一文とともに届いている。自分の速さで読みながら、それぞれが心に触れるものを受け取る余地を残す本。
Amazon で見るSongs of Kabir
A fifteenth-century weaver from Benares sang these, and for centuries they travelled by voice rather than by page. Rabindranath Tagore’s English is spare on purpose: it keeps the song’s shape instead of explaining it.
Amazon で見るThe Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
A fourteenth-century Flemish priest wrote this for people living ordinary lives, and he keeps returning to one image: a light that is common to all, and trees that stand in the same sun and bear different fruit.
Amazon で見るThe Cloud of Unknowing
名を残さなかった著者が、一人の読者に向けて書いた文章である。思考だけでは足りない場所で、何度も愛へと戻る。これらの頁には、未知のもののための場所がある。何かの考え方を引き受けるよう、読む人に求めることはない。
Amazon で見るThe Confessions
A bishop wrote this near the end of the fourth century, telling the whole of his life in the open and addressing it to God. He keeps returning to what can and cannot be said about light.
Amazon で見るThe Divine Comedy
ダンテの言葉のなかで、一つの歩みが形をとる。『天国篇』はその最後の部分であり、第30歌では、光と愛が一行に出会う。詩は、道の途中で変わっていくまなざしの跡を残している。
Amazon で見るThe Enneads
『エネアデス』で、プロティノスは内面と、それを照らすものを繰り返し見つめる。思考は、自らだけでは収めきれない経験へ向かう。引用のそばで読むと、この本は光へ向けるまなざしに、もう少し時間を与える。
Amazon で見るThe Fire of Love
A fourteenth-century English hermit wrote this in Latin, and it has been carried into English many times since. He spends the whole of it on one subject: what arrives when love comes uninvited, and how little of it language is able to hold.
Amazon で見るThe Imitation of Christ
A fifteenth-century priest wrote this as counsel for ordinary life rather than for a cloister. He keeps returning to attention — to what a person can gather, and to how much of it arrives rather than being won.
Amazon で見るThe Practice of the Presence of God
A seventeenth-century lay brother cooked in a monastery kitchen and wrote almost nothing himself; the letters and conversations here were gathered by others. He keeps returning to the same discovery, that attention can be held in the middle of ordinary work.
Amazon で見るThe Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg
A thirteenth-century beguine wrote this in her own Low German over three decades. Light is her recurring figure, and she keeps asking what it does when nothing lights it.
Amazon で見るThe Scale of Perfection
A fourteenth-century English priest wrote this as guidance for one person, and it has been read ever since by people with no cell and no rule. He keeps returning to what a person can actually tell apart, and to how little of it is settled by looking.
Amazon で見るTheologia Germanica
名の伝わらないこの文章は、望みと、自分のために取っておく場所に目を留める。短い章は、その場所が中心でなくなるとき何が変わるかを見つめさせる。別の時代から届く声を、それぞれが自分の歩みのなかで読むことができる。
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