“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the serviceContinue reading “Tecumseh says…”
Category Archives: Passages and Quotations
Lewis Thomas on Language
“Language is simply alive, like an organism. We all tell each other this, in fact, when we speak of living languages, and I think we mean something more than an abstract metaphor. We mean alive. Words are the cells of language, moving the great body, on legs. Language grows and evolves, leaving fossils behind. TheContinue reading “Lewis Thomas on Language”
The Fox
One of the things I always liked to do, and devoted a collection to on Google Plus, was to share literary quotes and snippets. Here is one from one of my favorite books, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince 21 “It was then that the fox appeared. “Good morning,” said the fox. “Good morning,” theContinue reading “The Fox”
“Reason says, “I will beguile him with the tongue;”
“Reason says, “I will beguile him with the tongue;”
C.S. Lewis: On Being Human “Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Pure Earthness and right Stonehood from their clear, High eminence are seen; unveiled, the seminal Huge Principles appear. TheContinue reading
Neither a passage nor a quotation this time, but an interview on a Gnosis channel, on the further (re)integration of science and so-called “woo-woo”
Neither a passage nor a quotation this time, but an interview on a Gnosis channel, on the further (re)integration of science and so-called “woo-woo”
“Only in silence the word,
“Only in silence the word,
Pablo Neruda: Estación inmóvil
Pablo Neruda: Estación inmóvil
“Art is innate in the artist, like an instinct that seizes and makes a tool out of the human being. The thing that in the final analysis wills something in him is not he, the personal man, but the aim of the art.”
“Art is innate in the artist, like an instinct that seizes and makes a tool out of the human being. The thing that in the final analysis wills something in him is not he, the personal man, but the aim of the art.”
Another semi-random paragraph from the bookshelves. From Loren Eiseley, “The Immense Journey”
Another semi-random paragraph from the bookshelves. From Loren Eiseley, “The Immense Journey”
