EXCERPT FROM

KOSTAS E. TSIROPULOS

DAILY ETERNITY

Athens 2000 A.D.

[translated by Mauro Giachetti]

Each time that the word of man skims over the depth of being with sacred awareness and ignores having, it becomes a fruitful, illuminating word, and shines like eternity. Because the word of God is eternal and man imitates it by thinking of God. He said, and the waters gathered together below the sky, and dry land appeared, and the seas were formed. He said, and dry land was covered by grass and by fruit trees, and «God saw that it was good». [...]

Each morning of the world looks like a person in his infancy, which is innocent. He touches the earth without startling because of his affinity with it, without knowing death. He discovers the seas and is stunned, as when he tastes must and gets upset because of the danger within his own body. He observes ecstaticly the fields, the woods, he bends over the leaves of the trees in the gardens and studies them, enchanted by the flowers, he savours the fruits of the trees and rejoices for the inexhaustible goodness of all creation.

He is amazed each evening when the whole creation slowly sinks into obscurity. And when night falls laying down a mysterious silence everywhere, he discovers the Creator's poetical affection in the stars that glow in the firmament sendind out messages. A child walks in the halo of this affection, that is why his eyes shine with eternity. And the more he discovers the creation, the more eternity – inadvertently – enraptures him. [...]