Eros Is An Issue Of Boundaries. He Exists Because Certain Boundaries Do. In The Interval Between Reach

“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.”

— Anne Carson, from Eros the Bittersweet: “Finding the Edge” (via intopermanence)

So what are we going to say, brothers, about God? For if you have fully grasped what you want to say, it isn’t God. If you have been able to comprehend it, you have comprehended something else instead of God. If you think you have been able to comprehend, your thoughts have deceived you. So he isn’t this, if this is what you have understood; but if he is this, then you haven’t understood. So what is it that you want to say, seeing that you haven’t been able to understand it?

Augustine, Sermo 52

Cuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory inscription from Ekur,  the temple of the god Enlil, ca. 16th–15th century B.C.

The Basilica Cistern, a 1,500-year-old treasure underground in Istanbul. This great work was built in order to collect rainwater and compensate for the city's need during Byzantine times. It is called a Basilica because it was built on the site of an old basilica.