“A Passage to India” by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
Passage O soul to India! Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.Not you alone, proud truths of the world, Nor you alone, ye facts of modern science, But myths and fables of eld, Asia’s, Africa’s fables, The far-darting beams of the spirit, the unloos’d dreams, The deep diving bibles and legends, The daring plots of […]
“Like the Full Moon…” Some Greek Proverbs on Gratitude
Arsenius, 6.38b “If you are able to give thanks, don’t tarry, but give it—since you know that things are not everlasting.” Δυνάμενος χαρίζεσθαι, μὴ βράδυνε, ἀλλὰ δίδου, ἐπιστάμενος μὴ εἶναι τὰ πράγματα μόνιμα. Arsenius, 6.95c “Humans have greater thanks for the unexpected” ᾿Εκ τῶν ἀέλπτων ἡ χάρις μείζων βροτοῖς Arsenius 8.42p “Just like food for […]
Essence
Spiritual practice beginning, middle, endunselfishness
Higgledy-piggledy – The Art of the Double Dactyl
Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, an anthology devoted to a novel form of poetry, edited by Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, with illustrations by Milton Glaser, was first published by Atheneum in 1967. The originator of this new brief genre was Anthony Hecht as the introduction explains, even offering a precise date – November […]
Solipsism
The central paradox
The Gloss 