Romania #1442: Heraclitus (issued October 25, 1961) |
Found "You could not discover the limits of soul, even if you traveled every road to do so; such is the depth of its meaning." declared Heraclitus in Fragment 42 of his Treatise on Nature in my 1964 paperback translated by Philip Wheelwright highlighted with a yellow marker. Other sayings I've marked in yellow include Fragment 110 "No man ever steps in the same river twice." But the most memorable of his quotes is Fragment 8 "I have searched myself." on page 19 to which I wrote "Have you found?" Right opposite of this query I wrote "19 years after posing this question, I found the answer in Plotinus's Enneads, IV:8:1" "Heraclitus seems to teach by metaphor, with the idea that it is for us to seek within ourselves as he sought for himself and found." This revelation came at 1:30 pm on September 3, 1986, overjoyed by one great sage confirming another of his awakening. Peter Y. Chou Mountain View, 4-1-2019 |