This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?

I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below.

"Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift up my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and talk so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles — a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story — the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort — each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

The best come from the worst

عليه أن يرتفع، أن يرتفع دائمًا، فلا سبيل إلى النقاء إلا بالإرتفاع. وفوق القمة تسمع لغة الكواكب، وهمسات الفضاء، وأماني القوة والخلود، بعيدًا عن أنات الشكوى والخور و روائح العفن. الآن تشدو ألحان التكيّة بأغنيات الخلود، ،تعرض الحقيقة العشرات من وجوهها الخفية، وينكشف الغيب عن شتى المصائر. من هذه الشرفة يستطيع أن يتابع الأجيال في تعاقبها، أن يؤدي لكل جيل دورًا، وأن ينضم بصفة نهائية إلى أسرة الأجرام السماوية.

One thing that comes out in myths, for example, is at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

In Superman, some of the loftiest aspirations of our species came hurtling down from imagination's bright heaven to collide with the lowest form of entertainment, and from their union something powerful and resonant was born, albeit in its underwear.

Heaven is not gained at a single bound;
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit round by round.