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8.4.95 15.30 Philip's cafe (Wie Katoen)

I feel completely invigorated again, 

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The world is the self

We are autonomous beings, and yet plural.

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But what I like most in this note is the memory of those ordinary Flemish people, so composed and so secure in their culture it seemed to me, they looked fond of each other (though sitting on different tables, men here women there.) That, and the 'whole of the world' which the conjunction, of Milton's fine but bombastic language with their almost taoistic acceptance of what is, composed for me at that moment...