Peter Matthiessen Quote

Only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.


The Snow Leopard (1978)


Only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing,...

Only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing,...

Only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing,...

Only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing,...