The Circle Dance of Time
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Plotinus, Enneads 6:9 in A. H. Armstrong, ed. and trans., Plotinus , vol. 7 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), pp. 333 and 335. See my discussion in my Music of Time (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996), p. 159. 5. Dag Hammarskjöld, “A Room of Quiet: The United Nations Meditation Room” (New York: United Nations, 1971), opening sentence. 6. Patricia McKillip, The Sorceress and the Cygnet (New York: Ace, 1991), p. 92. See discussion below in the chapter “The Far Point on the Circle: Love Passing through Loneliness.” 7. Pascal, Pensees (#278 in ed. Brunschvicg) in Pascal, Oeu - vres Completes , ed. Jacques Chevalier (Paris: Gallimard, 1954), p. 1222. Quoted below in the chapter “God Sensible to the Heart,” n. 1. 135 Dunne Book:Layout 1 4/15/10 10:11 AM Page 136 8. Nicolas Malebranche, Oeuvres , ed. Genevieve Rodis- Lewis and Germain Malbreil (Paris: Gallimard, 1979), vol. 1, p. 1132 (my trans.). Quoted below, “God Sensible to the Heart,” n. 39. 9. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , p. 28 (“East Coker,” lines 123–128). 10. Pascal, Pensees (#206 in ed. Brunschvicg) in Pascal, Oeuvres Completes , p. 1113 (my trans.). The saying about the infi - nite spaces “I do not know and that do not know me” is #205 in ed. Brunschvicg. 11. Saint Augustine, Confessions , trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 3 (bk. 1, chap. 1). 12. Werner Herzog, “Every man for himself and God against all” in his Screenplays , trans. Alan Greenberg and Martje Herzog (New York: Tanam, 1980), pp. 97 and 172. 13. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings , trans. Leif Sjöberg and W. H. Auden (New York: Knopf, 1964), p. 89. Reasons of the Heart 1. “Le coeur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connait point.” Pascal, Pensees (#277 in ed. Brunschvicg), Oeuvres Com - pletes , p. 1221. 2. Karl Barth, Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum (Faith in Search of Understanding), trans. Ian W. Robertson (Cleveland and New York: World/Meridian, 1962). 3. Bernard Lonergan, Insight (London: Longmans, 1957). 4. Helen Luke, “Choice in the Lord of the Rings” (Three Rivers, Mich.: Apple Farm Paper, n.d.), p. 12, an unpublished essay she gave me permission to use. 5. Dag Hammarskjöld, “A Room of Quiet.” 6. Pascal, Pensees (#281 in ed. Brunschvicg), Oeuvres Com - pletes , p. 1221. 7. Ibid. (#278), p. 1222. 8. “Tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre,” Pascal, Pensees (#139), pp. 1138–1139. 136 Notes to Pages viii –3 Dunne Book:Layout 1 4/15/10 10:11 AM Page 137 9. Thomas R. Kelly, A Testament of Devotion (New York: Harper & Row, 1941), p. 40. 10. Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (New York: Penguin, 1987), pp. 161–162 (his critique of Pascal). The words he is quot - ing here, as he says, are those of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor. 11. Newman, Prose and Poetry , ed. George N. Shuster (New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1925), p. 116. 12. Arthur Zajonc, Catching the Light (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). 13. The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert , ed. and trans. Paul Auster (San Francisco: North Point, 1983), p. 180 (Joubert’s en - tries for October 22 and 24, 1821, quoted by Maurice Blanchot in a commentary at the end of the volume). 14. Ibid., pp. 180–181. 15. Wendell Berry, A World Lost (Washington, D.C.: Coun - terpoint, 1996), p. 150. 16. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (one vol. ed.) (London: Allen & Unwin, 1976), p. 397. 17. Matthew 5:8 (KJ). 18. Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing , trans. Douglas V. Steere (New York: Harper & Row, 1956). 19. Dante, Paradiso 3:85 in E. Moore and Paget Toynbee, Le Opere di Dante Alighieri (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 107. 20. Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince , trans. Katherine Woods (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), p. 87. 21. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings , p. 89. 22. Gabriel Marcel, Being and Having , trans. Katherine Farrer (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), p. 167. 23. The story is recounted by Jung in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections , ed. Aniela Jaffe and trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Random House/Vin - tage, 1963), p. 355. 24. The Soliloquies of Saint Augustine (Latin and English), ed. and trans. Thomas F. Gilligan (New York: Cosmopolitan Science and Art Service Co., 1943), p. 70 (Latin) and p. 71 (En- glish). I have modified the translation a little. Notes to Pages 3 –8 137 Dunne Book:Layout 1 4/15/10 10:11 AM Page 138 25. Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling , trans. Alastair Hannay (New York: Penguin, 1988), p. 49. 26. Genesis 5:24 (RSV). 27. Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1983), p. 4. 28. John 17:23 (RSV). 29. John 6:68 (RSV). 30. See my discussion of these formulas in Peace of the Pres - ent (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991), pp. 99–101. 31. John 20:17 (RSV). 32. Saint Augustine, Confessions , p. 3 (bk. 1, chap. 1). 33. Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, The Forms of Violence (New York: Schocken, 1985), pp. 110–125. 34. “Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie,” Pascal, Pensees (#206 in ed. Brunschvicg), p. 1113. 35. Matthew 1:23 (RSV). 36. Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Last Tales (New York: Random/Vintage, 1975), p. 100. 37. King of Hearts (Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Jean Claude Brialy, Micheline Presle, Michel Serrault, Pierre Brasseur, Francoise Christophe, Julien Guiomar, Palau), di - rected by Philippe de Broca, screenplay and dialogue by Daniel Boulanger, music by Georges Delerue (1967 Fidebroc S.A.R.L.) (2001, MGM Home Entertainment Inc.). 38. John 18:36 (KJ). 39. Ephesians 3:17 (KJ). 40. Martin Buber, Ecstatic Confessions , ed. Paul Mendes- Flohr, trans. Esther Cameron (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985), p. 11. 41. The Upanishads , trans. Juan Mascaro (New York: Pen - guin, 1965), pp. 45 and 132 (Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad). See my discussion in The Way of All the Earth (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978), pp. 193 and 228. 42. The Upanishads (Mascaro), pp. 117–118 (Chandogya Upa - nishad). See my discussion in The Way of All the Earth , p. 219. 43. See my discussion of this sentence in Peace of the Pres - ent , p. 101. 138 Notes to Pages 8 –15 Dunne Book:Layout 1 4/15/10 10:11 AM Page 139 44. Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (one vol. ed.) (Rome: Editiones Paulinae, 1962), p. 12 (I, q. 2, a. 1), my trans - lation. 45. Martin Buber, I and Thou , trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (New York: Scribner’s, 1958), pp. 66–67. 46. John 1:12 (RSV). 47. John 14:23 (RSV). 48. Buber, I and Thou , p. 67. 49. See my Peace of the Present , pp. 93–95 (a conversation with David Daube). 50. Buber, I and Thou , p. 67. 51. See my Peace of the Present , pp. 94–95. 52. John 17:23 and John 1:14 (RSV). 53. The Upanishads (Mascaro), pp. 83–84 (Mandukya Upa - nishad) and pp. 134–138 (Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad). 54. See my Love’s Mind (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), p. 125. 55. Nicholas of Cusa, The Vision of God , trans. Emma Gur - ney Salter (New York: Ungar, 1960). 56. Or “by what means can one perceive the perceiver?” in The Upanishads , trans. Patrick Olivelle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 30. 57. Ira Progroff, trans. and commentary, The Cloud of Un - knowing (New York: Dell, 1957), p. 37. 58. See my discussion of this saying of Al-Alawi in The Homing Spirit (New York: Crossroad, 1987; rpt. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997), p. 76. 59. The Upanishads (Mascaro), p. 83 (Mandukya Upani - shad). 60. Ibid., p. 35 (from Taittiriya Upanishad). 61. John 10:30 (KJ). RSV has “I and the Father are one.” 62. Buber, I and Thou , p. 84. 63. See my discussion of “Only God enters into the soul” in my Reasons of the Heart , pp. 57–58. 64. See the texts of Saint Augustine collected under the title “Crede ut intelligas” by Franciscus Moriones in his En - chiridion Theologicum Sancti Augustini (Madrid: Editorial Cato- lica, 1961), pp. 14–19. Notes to Pages 15 –20 139 Dunne Book:Layout 1 4/15/10 10:11 AM Page 140 God Sensible to the Heart 1. “C’est le coeur qui sent Dieu, et non la raison. Voila ce que c’est que la foi: Dieu sensible au coeur, non a la raison.” Pascal, Pensees (#278 in ed.