God Beauty Perfection Love :: Synonyms
To a practitioner of Tendai (Buddhism), everything is wonderful. ~ Saiko
...e crew, particularly its captain, takes on the role of a fisherman for the duration of their journey. But nagging at him always is the question, “Who am I?” What he turns out to be is ruthless when threatened, but honourable, respectful and kind when not. What he turns out to be is a trained assassin seeking redemption…no, not so much redemption. There’s a sense to it that the past is done, that the assassin was a different man than the newly emer...
...lt your head back and laugh at the sky. That sentence first came to me cited as a Buddha quote. It’s not. I don’t know who first said those words, but they’re brilliant. The circle is incomplete without darkness. And the incomplete circle is not harmonious, not perfect. Beauty is illuminated by light, while shadow gives it shape....
...e it all. Somewhere along the way we sacrifice something that we would liked to have kept.” Yes, and there is always something more to strive for. My heart’s desire for the past three days has been to complete this post. I’m going to call it complete. I know it’s not, and will likely revisit it, revise it, rewrite it at some point. This is just the scenic view of the moment....
...e beauty in all things. Can you imagine how easy it will be to love fully, completely, unconditionally then? 11. I once knew that reason alone could answer all the important questions; I know now that reason alone can’t even answer the interesting ones. 12. Science wants to know, “What is a tree?” Art seeks to express, “What does a tree mean?” Science doesn’t always understand that these questions aren’t the same, and that the difference is essent...
...collaboration (1) colour (2) Comfortably Numb (1) commodity fetishism (1) common ground (1) compassion (9) concert (1) concinnity (1) conditional (2) Confucianism (1) Confucius (1) connectedness (4) connection (9) conscience (1) consciousness (8) Contact (1) control (1) Cortez (1) Cortez the Killer (1) Cosmic Thing (1) cosmology (1) Cosmos (1) courage (12) Courage (For Hugh MacLennan) (1) Courage Is... (1) covers (2) cowardice (1) creativity (1)...
...the video reproduces just enough fidelity to hear it, though the source becomes clear at the very end. I’ll give you the lyric, the story it tells and some background on Oshun, the West African goddess, while you continue to listen. The Importance of Oshun in Yoruba Culture According to the Yoruba elders, Oshun [also Osun, Oxum] is the “unseen mother present at every gathering”, because Oshun is the Yoruba understanding of the cosmological forces...
...the surface to be in conflict when, underlying them, the central ideas are compatible. Not unlike the dual nature of light. When we look at it from some perspectives, it appears wavelike. When we look at it from other perspectives, it behaves as if it consists of particles. Light is neither a wave, nor a particle. No matter what perspective we see it from, it is still light, and how we describe it takes nothing from the beauty of a sunset. The dif...
...to put it into operation. We shall see how the card fares according to the common arts of fortune-telling, and it will be an example to those who can discern the fact, otherwise so evident, that the Trumps Major had no place originally in the arts of psychic gambling, when cards are used as the counters and pretexts. However, we know very little of the circumstances under which this art arose. The conventional explanations say that The Fool signif...
...were apes before we spoke of sin That’s the way it’s always been It all comes down to creating time You don’t always have to make it all rhyme We’ll all drive off in our hybrid lives Chances are we’ll make it back Living doesn’t always rhyme, and wanting it to do so can really drag you down. We drive off in search of something better, or run away from what ails us, make concessions to the desire to rhyme, or rhyme with a particular meter, all t...
...Pledge allegiance to Love If we all pledged allegiance to love rather than flags there would be no war A thought which came to mind this morning. I knew immediately which image I wished to apply it to. I don’t know who the artist is (it looks like a Banksy), but I found the image here....