It Furthers One To Cross The Great Waters

We run carelessly to the precipice,
after we have put up a façade
to prevent ourselves from seeing it.
--Blaise Pascal

Allman Brothers: Midnight Rider

Leop­ards break
in­to the tem­ple
and drink all the
sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry.
It keeps hap­pen­ing.
In the end,
it can be cal­cu­lat­ed
in ad­vance
and is in­cor­po­rat­ed
in­to the rit­ual.

--Franz Kafka
The Zürau Aphorisms