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Abraham, Our Father in Faith.

13-Jul-10

In the endless self-repeating
Flows for ever more the Same;
Myriad arches, springing, meeting,
Hold at rest the mighty Frame;
Streams from all things love of living,
Grandest star and humblest clod;
All the straining, all the striving,
Is eternal rest in God.
- GOETHE
In any good religion, there should be something utterly unpalatable, something horrifying and blood-chilling; it could not otherwise [...]

Happiness.

15-Dec-09

I remember reading of Goethe, a man so blessed that some have said he lived the fullest human life ever, that he said that in all his life he never had forty consecutive happy days.  Senior year of college, after turning in my thesis, I put myself to this challenge, and had twenty-five consecutive happy [...]