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I was helped through 'a perfumed scorpion' a few years back at caravanserai!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/caravansarai
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Jane
I studied them a lifetime ago and really it doesn't amount to much! 150 lines left of Parmenides and perhaps 500 of Empedocles
Actually I think a massive amount of real power could be in as many lines, sometimes less is more, but not really there, w…
Well, a bit! I suppose what is interesting is that each brings their own slant to these writings, consciously or unconsciously and reflects their own time and their own tradition. And a change is afoot this time and this tradition is more able to lo…
I studied them a lifetime ago and really it doesn't amount to much! 150 lines left of Parmenides and perhaps 500 of Empedocles, its just a couple of pages, really, intriguing though.
Heraclitus equates strife with justice, as in the way things are and the way things should be.
'One should knowthat war is common and justice strife and that everything comes aboute in accordance with strife and what must be.'
So seeing love and str…
This is just my meanderings and they don't really fit neatly into the thread.
You know how if you say a word so many times it begins to feel odd and bulky in your mouth and meaning seems to slip away? I felt like that about 'meditation' this mornin…
Pangolins and platypus (i) are my favourite animals.
Is that your hand Mike? It is hard to see this picture and not to think 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and also to wonder how an apparently wild bird comes to be sitting so calmly on the hand of this red jacketed person.
The story of…
Hello Mike
I also like the lock and key analogy. I have heard the analogy that belief is like a type of innocuation, especially if they get you young enough. It knocks the mystery and the search out of it, it knocks out the discovery, where you hav…
nice Jane, thankyou.
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The Chief takes less than he is given And gives more than he has taken.
Give and Take
The Chief takes less than he is given
and gives more than he has taken.
Kitab-i-Amu Daria
(from wisdom of the idiots)
It was a month to the day from the Yard Sale post to Hidden Recess closing.
One conversation in that month was about expansion and contraction. Maybe a great contraction suggests an equally great expansion: pruning leads to growth.
from the same book and because it has been a day of songs
Tavern pledge
'It may be said: "They came in vain"
Let it not… Continue
The Chief takes less than he is given
and gives more than he has taken.
Kitab-i-Amu Daria
(from wisdom of the idiots)
It was a month to the day from the Yard Sale post to Hidden Recess closing.
One conversation in that month was about expansion and contraction. Maybe a great contraction suggests an equally great expansion: pruning leads to growth.
from the same book and because it has been a day of songs
Tavern pledge
'It may be said: "They came in vain"
Let it not… Continue
Posted on June 10, 2009 at 6:58pm — 4 Comments
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 2:51pm on June 20, 2009,
Rajan Arulganesan said…
- Thanks for your acknowledgement Jane, I am not sure which post of mine you are referring to. The one regarding choice bringing about a sort of paralysis was posted by Sharjeel Zeb, perhaps this is the one you are referring to.
- At 1:42am on June 13, 2009,
Germain Pilliat said…
- salut Jane!
ben puisque on est compatriote, c'est qu'on a pas trop eu le choix!
en tout cas, merci pour ta bienvenue.
a bientôt pour une e-discussion enflamée !!
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