We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. — Olive Schreiner

“On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.”

“If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

The full African moon poured down its light from the blue sky into the wide, lonely plain. The dry, sandy earth, with its coating of stunted ‘karroo’ bushes a few inches high, the low hills that skirted the plain, the milk-bushes with their long, finger-like leaves, all were touched by a weird and almost oppressive beauty as they lay in the white light.”