Saturday, December 31, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
The audacity of memory
and the treasures of nostalgia
“Lost friend, lost child, lost parent, sister, brother, husband, wife, we will not so discard you!” he wrote. “You shall hold your cherished places in our Christmas hearts, and by our Christmas fires; and in the season of immortal hope, and on the birthday of immortal mercy, we will shut out Nothing!”
Charles Dickens
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Them Us It
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
Friday, December 16, 2011
In Memoriam – Christopher Hitchens
to which should generally be added…."and do participate in private", or so it would seem from many 'religious leaders/concepts'.
Hence, for example, a woman in the Middle East can be 'gang-raped' in the name of religion – and then punished for it by being imprisoned and suffering 100 lashes.
In the 'hypocrisy Shoddy Globe Award' we should also not forget to dishonour the Catholic Church and the Vatican for it's en-darkened attitudes to children and truth..
Another shortlisted for the 'Shoddy Globe Award' is, of course, the State of Israel, which has managed to turn a magnificent faith into an apartheid look-a-like.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
sad lillies
Sins committed in the name of a higher good, Zmirak wrote, can “smell and look like lilies. But they flank a coffin. Lying dead and stiff inside that box is natural Justice ... what each of us owes the other in an unconditional debt.”
No higher cause can trump that obligation — not a church, and certainly not a football program. And not even a lifetime of heroism can make up for leaving a single child alone, abandoned to evil, weeping in the dark.
John Zmirak/Ross Douthat
Monday, November 07, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Flower Power-002
"In all the world is no place hidden from the glory shed by hundreds of myriad rays from the heart of every flower of Paradise"
Shinran Shonin, the 10th century Japanese monk /Buddhist Psalms, by S. Yamabe and L. Adams Beck, [1921], at sacred-texts.com
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Shining, shining, shining
Joseph CAMPBELL: "That is the way it feels, but this is it, this is Eden. When you see the kingdom spread upon the earth, the old way of living in the world is annihilated. That is the end of the world, The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance".
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