A thought is a screen…
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
« πλ | 23 Apr 2006 »
Quotes — Existence (11 entries)
Between the two my life flows…
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.
« πλ | 1 May 2006 »
By which existence is transmitted…
…So it is with human beings, with the man and the woman who use the sexual urge in sexual intercourse and enter as it were into the cosmic stream by which existence is transmitted.
« πλ | 18 Dec 2005 »
Created for the transcendent…
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew. …Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful…and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a lihttp://cowpi.com/cgi-bin/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=1937&blog_id=6ttle more hospitable to these beautiful things.
« πλ | 10 Jul 2006 »
Love life more than…
Love life more than the meaning of life, love life in spite of logic.
« πλ | 15 Jan 2006 »
Man is born broken…
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!
— Eugene O’Neill
« πλ | 7 Feb 2006 »
Meaning and Matter
How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.
« πλ | 11 Jan 2006 »
Natural causes…
As created by God, you might say, Nature comes well stocked with natural causes.
« πλ | 20 Feb 2006 »
Suspended between…
Anyone who has probed the inner life, who has sat in silence long enough to experience the stillness of the mind behind its apparent noise, is faced with a mystery. Apart from all the outer attractions of life in the world, there exists at the center of human consciousness something quite satisfying and beautiful in itself, a beauty without features. The mystery is not so much that these two dimensions exist—an outer world and the mystery of the inner world—but that we are suspended between them, as a space in which both worlds meet…as if the human being is the meeting point, the threshold between two worlds.
« πλ | 14 Jul 2006 »
We are less alone…
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
« πλ | 22 Jul 2006 »
We were made to…
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful…and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
« πλ | 16 Jun 2006 »
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