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Gibbings, Robert - Coming down the Seine
Identifier
013217
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
In August 1945 Robert set out for Polynesia again. He visited many of the islands and spent six months in New Zealand, returning in late 1947. He recounted his travels and experiences in Over the Reefs (1948). He returned to Ireland for Sweet Cork of Thee (1951), and then crossed the English Channel to write Coming down the Seine (1953). Trumpets from Montparnasse (1955) was based on his travels in France and Italy. His final book, based on the area around Long Wittenham, was Till I end my Song (1957). The somewhat prophetic title is the second half of the couplet from Spenser's Prothalamion that begins: Sweet Thames run softly ... .
A description of the experience
Robert Gibbings - Coming down the Seine
The trouble is with just 'being' is that you get nothing done.
The trouble is with 'doing' is that it makes you unconscious of 'being'.
Nothing is worth doing unless you concentrate your thoughts on it.
Yet if you do that, you miss the consciousness of the doing and enjoy only the 'having done'.