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  • Turn a life around

    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia Source:… Continue reading

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130120

    In harmony? No need for sages. In discord? Needing sages. Heed their answers & not the question? Needing scholars. Adopt scholarship? Tyranny of authority. Source: asianart.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • Leaving the woods

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    Leaving the woods

  • Textimony 20121111

      Would you make grief? Then hold tight to what is born & must perish. Would you find joy? Then let the unborn & imperishable hold you. Love & do what you will! Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121110b

    All Encompassed,   none apart or alone.   Love is this first sigh.   Love is that last gasp.   Love is always already the only word. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121110a

    Convictions benefit none   when they are baseless:   hopes for wisdom signify naught   without love disclosing a resolute path   to the heart of this Beautiful Order. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120821

    “Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.” – Virgil “Love, and then what you will, do.” -St. Augustine Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120805

           dry horizon dusk           crimson passion births star shine                cat chasing crickets Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc., 0018: Chance & Digression

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  • “The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards…”

    I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee… Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc., 0017: For John & Martine

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  • The sun god

    So I preface this note with the following idea: an ethic based on empirical fact or facts, despite the contingency of the a posteriori, will be more concrete, literally and figuratively, than an ethic based on the a priori or… Continue reading