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 Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 9:34 am Post subject: Going Home Again |
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However much you study, you cannot know without action.
A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man.
Empty of essence,
what learning has he -
Whether upon him is firewood or book?
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 10:57 pm Post subject: Re: Going Home Again |
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Come, come whoever you are,
wanderer, wosrhipper, lover of leaving;
Come, ours is not a caravan of despair.
Though you've broken your vow a thousand times,
Come, come again.
(Rumi) |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 12:26 am Post subject: Re: Going Home Again |
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"In meditation we consider carefully divine things, and we pass
from one to another, so that the heart may feel love. It is as
though we should strike a flint, to draw a spark of fire.
"But in contemplation the spark is struck: the love we were
seeking is here. The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by
many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the Truth.
"Meditation is the means, contemplation is the end: the one
is the path, the other is the end of the path. Even as the
vessel is still and at rest when it has arrived in port, when
the soul has reached contemplation through meditation it
should cease its toils and inquiries; and happy in the vision
of God, even as if He were present, be one in feelings of
love, of wonder, of joy and other such.
"Let a man return into his own self, and there in the centre
of his soul, let him wait upon God, as one who listens to
another speaking from a high tower, as though he had God in
his heart, as though in the whole creation there was only
God and his soul.
"It has been said that 'Prayer is perfect, when he who prays,
remembers not that he is praying'."
(St. Peter of Alcantara, 1499 - 1562) |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 4:08 pm Post subject: Re: Going Home Again |
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To know and yet not to do
Is in fact not to know.
(Wang Yang Ming) |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: Going Home Again |
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"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
(Goethe) |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:22 am Post subject: Re: Going Home Again |
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"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
there is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
(Henry David Thoreau) |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:31 am Post subject: Re: Going Home Again |
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"How do I know that loving life is not a delusion?
How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who,
having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?"
(Chuang Tzu) |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:50 am Post subject: Re: Going Home Again |
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"It is not bad luck, but right and just that you have
found yourselves traveling this road, far from the
beaten track followed by others. It is right that
you should learn all things and develop the unshakable
heart of well-rounded truth, unlike the opinions of
men that contain no truth at all. You shall learn how
mere appearances seem as though they actually exist."
(Parmenides) |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:48 pm Post subject: Re: Going Home Again |
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"When you start on your journey to Ithaca,
then pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
Do not fear the Lestrygonians
and the Cyclopes and the angry Poseidon.
You will never meet such as these on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your body and your spirit.
You will never meet the Lestrygonians,
the Cyclopes and the fierce Poseidon,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your soul does not raise them up before you.
Then pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many,
that you will enter ports seen for the first time
with such pleasure, with such joy!
Stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and corals, amber and ebony,
and pleasurable perfumes of all kinds,
buy as many pleasurable perfumes as you can;
visit hosts of Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from those who have knowledge.
Always keep Ithaca fixed in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for long years;
and even to anchor at the isle when you are old,
rich with all that you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.
Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would never have taken the road.
But she has nothing more to offer you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not defrauded you.
With the great wisdom you have gained, with so much experience,
you must surely have understood by then what Ithacas mean."
(Cafavy 1863-1933) |
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