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LJ Interests Meme Results
Borrowed from Ed Book. After reading his results, I was intringued, but did not imagine that my own results would prove equally as insightful. I’m really quite surprised at how closely this set of ten selected interests REALLY sums up … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bukowski, exercises, Gil Scott-Heron, India, Lefty Frizzell, personal history, revolution, sonnet, The Perennial Philosophy, Vedanta, Zen
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Today’s Potent Quote …
The difference between the mortified, but still proud and self-centered stoic and the unmortified hedonist consists in this: the latter, being flabby, shiftless and at heart rather ashamed of himself, lacks the energy and the motive to do much harm … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, hedonism, morality, philosophy, pride, The Perennial Philosophy
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More on the Artist Within …
The poet’s or the painter’s vision of the divine in nature, the worshipper’s awareness of a holy presence in the sacrament, symbol or image – these are not entirely subjective. True, such perceptions cannot be had by all perceivers, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, art, artists, books, poetry, The Perennial Philosophy
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Today’s Potent (Seed) Thought
The politics of those whose goal is beyond time are always pacific; it is the idolaters of past and future, of reactionary memory and Utopian dream, who do the persecuting and make wars…The philosophy that rationalizes war and military training … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Aldous Huxley, pacificism, politics, rationalization, The Perennial Philosophy, war
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