December 2010
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“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself...”
– Muriel Spark
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Pure Silence
I am no longer following anyone on Tumblr. If I was following you, please don’t take this personally. Tumblr is the latest digital victim of a series of attempts to reduce both physical and digital clutter and noise, after Facebook (I deactivated my account) and Twitter (I unfollowed everyone). I would say goodbye, but I will continue to collect an archive of material which is both...
November 2010
16 posts
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“Kali Yuga we really are in it, heavy metal Age, where Spiritual common sense...”
– Allen Ginsberg, Swami Bhaktivedanta Chanting God’s Song in America
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“In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes—in order to aspire to the...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
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“Therefore we said: If for any man the tumult of the flesh fell silent, silent...”
– Augustine, Confessions
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“During the first days of his new wandering life, in the first greedy whirl of...”
– Hermann Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund
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“So divine and precious is The Soul, be confident that, by its power, you can...”
– Plotinus
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“The chief difficulty is this: awareness of the One comes to us neither by...”
– Plotinus
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“Those who believe that the world of being is governed by luck or by chance and...”
– Plotinus
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“God Himself, the Father and fashioner of all that is, older than the Sun or the...”
– Maximus of Tyre
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“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself,...”
– Hillel
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“How would you describe the man
whose wisdom is steadfast, Krishna?
How does...”
– Arjuna, The Bhagavad Gita [2.54]
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