Voices

The primary texts, and the library’s own hand beside them.

The ancients in their own words: public-domain translations of the source texts, with the library’s commentary written in the margin, never over the top. The living are linked to, not taken from.

2 entries on these shelves · growing moon by moon

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Tao Te Ching: On Water and the Way Eighty-one brief chapters on the power of not forcing attributed to Laozi · China, c. 4th c. BCE
The Upanishads: Tat Tvam Asi The sentence at the heart of Vedanta: 'thou art that' India, c. 800–200 BCE · the close of the Vedas