absently From the Coleman Barks interpretation of Rumi: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense. Reading a lot of Rumi recently. […]
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Mysticism and Moralism.
20-Aug-11Contemplating the weeds.
03-Jun-09buy provigil online safely A not-bad spiritual discussion between Andrew Sullivan and Bob Wright: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/weeds-are-beautiful.html
It is a remarkable fact that before the 20th Century there were no allusive titles. Titles were simpler then, like “Daniel Defoe” or “David Copperfield.” St. Bernard did not call his commentary on the Song of Songs “The Kiss of His Mouth” and Shakespeare did not call Julius Caesar “Scatter the Proud.” Crime and Punishment […]