Moments of Beholding
The hour is striking so close above me, So clear and sharp, That all my senses ring with it. I feel it now: There's a power in me To grasp and give shape to... More »
The hour is striking so close above me, So clear and sharp, That all my senses ring with it. I feel it now: There's a power in me To grasp and give shape to... More »
But the effect of society is not only to funnel fictions into our consciousness, but also to prevent the awareness of reality. . . Every society, by it own practice of living and... More »
No drives, no compulsions No needs, no attractions Then your affairs Are under control You are a free person. Chuang Tzu wrote those thoughts in Chinese over 2300 years ago. The concept that... More »
The diverse response and grades of significance that an object elicits can be illuminated this way: An animal may see an oddly shaped black and white object, a tribal person a rectangular flexible object... More »
Sheba's Gifts to Solomon Queen Sheba loads forty mules with gold bricks as gifts for Solomon. When her envoy and his party reach the wide plain leading to Solomon's palace they see the... More »
While evidence of our intellectual and technological genius is all around us, there is growing concern that in other ways we have seriously underestimated ourselves. In part because of the blinding brilliance of our... More »
So though the eyes love attains the heart: For the eyes are the scouts of the heart, And the eyes go reconnoitering For what it would please the heart to possess. And when they... More »
As long as we stay in closed rooms And stiff coats, we were disguised; But toward the end of winter the carnival Helps us to play at disguise for a while. For soon... More »
The great sea set me in motion. Set me adrift. And I move as a weed in the river. The arch of sky And mightiness of storms Encompasses me, And I am left... More »
You come and go. The doors swing closed Ever more gently almost without a shudder. Of all who move through the quiet houses, You are the quietest. We become so accustomed to you,... More »