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 »
The conventional self is composed mainly of a history consisting of selected memories, and beginning from the moment of parturition. According to convention, I am not simply what I'm doing now. I am... 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 »
We are supposedly living in the same world, but who can tell the thing we popularly call a stone lying before this window is the same thing to all of us? According to the... 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 mind is like a crystal ball with no color of its own. It is pure and perfect as it is. But as soon as it confronts the outside world it takes on all... More »
Our faith comes in moments; our vice habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. For this reason,... More »
If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies . That thought has deep roots. Those roots are planted in action which is always constant. I change ever second as my consciousness blinks... 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 »