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 29 Jan 2005 @ 22:01
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
---Juan Ramon Jimenez
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down and do nothing.
---J.B. Priestley
Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.
---Nicolas De Malebranche
Toward The Sunlight (1910)
Paul Dougherty
Thank you for reading this far, but let me warn you: despite the lovely title this piece is going to be about cancer. Like an increasing number of men my age, I was diagnosed with the prostate kind after a biopsy almost a year ago. Initially I started writing online about this in case I dropped off the Internet for a while to let people know what had happened. The response surprised me. People thanked me for being honest and asked to know more. Cancer is very scary and, like most people, I never wanted to think about it until I was forced to come to terms with it. Once one identifies himself, people start doing likewise with you...and soon you're sharing in a lot of personal stories. It's as if there's a Cancer Anonymous, only without any program or meetings. There probably are support groups somewhere---and certainly there are some interesting computer sites---but I suppose most of us settle for charting out a lonely course of treatment and life readjustment. Thank God for loved ones, and people who get closer now and really mean it. More >
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 24 Jan 2005 @ 10:35
Brothers, have no fear of men's sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
---Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Meditation is not the means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
---Krishnamurti
"What have you come here for?" Master Ma-Tzu asked Hui-Hai.
"I have come seeking the Buddha's teaching."
"What a fool you are," Ma-Tzu said. "You have the greatest treasure in the world inside you, yet you go around asking other people for help."
Hui-Hai bowed and said,: "Please, Master, tell me what this treature is."
"Where is your question coming from? THIS is your treasure---precisely what is asking the question at this very moment. You are the master of everything."
---Zen mondo
The February issue of Prospect has a cover story that should give us all a goal toward which to work. And time is of the essence (even if it is a few billion years)!
Escape from the universe
Michio Kaku
The universe is destined to end. Before it does, could an advanced civilisation escape via a "wormhole" into a parallel universe? The idea seems like science fiction, but it is consistent with the laws of physics and biology. Here's how to do it. More >
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 12 Jan 2005 @ 11:02
When a foolish man hears of the Tao,
he laughs out loud.
If he didn't laugh
it wouldn't be the Tao.
---Lao Tzu
You must learn to wait properly.
---Eugen Herrigel
Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said, "Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and according as I am able I strive to cleanse my heart of thoughts; now what more should I do?"
The elder rose up in reply and stretched out his hands to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of fire. He said: "Why not be totally changed into fire?"
---Desert Father Zen
ToledoBlade.com
Article published January 11, 2005
Lawsuit over Ohio election dropped
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Three dozen voters challenging the presidential election results in the Ohio Supreme Court asked to drop their lawsuit today, saying it is moot with last week’s certification of the electoral vote and the upcoming inauguration. More >
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 10 Jan 2005 @ 10:37
Tom Toles' great work is available all the time online at [link] .
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The great man is one who never loses his child's heart.
---Mencius
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
---Henry David Thoreau
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
---William James
James' implication of course is what not to overlook either. Am I seeing things or is Tom Toles becoming even more brilliant with each day? This cartoon is for yesterday but should live through the ages. It has layers of meaning that make me want to ask a lot of questions. More >
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 7 Jan 2005 @ 09:27
All that is necessary is to lay down, not just the body, but one's heart and the whole of oneself.
---Neville Shulman
Take one step away from yourself---and behold!---the path!
---Abu Said
There comes a time when one asks even of Shakespeare, even of Beethoven, is this all?
---Aldous Huxley
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
When Vice President Dick Cheney, standing on the dais, far left, called her name to ratify President Bush's election, Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio, far right, rose and challenged the vote.
"There was a point where this served a purpose," said Susan Gwinn, chairwoman of the Athens County Democratic Party in Ohio. "But I think we passed that. We need to move on."
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The woman speaking to this morning's New York Times is not only chair of the Democratic Party in my county, but also Regional Counsel for that political organization AND Commissioner of the Board of Elections here. She is referring to yesterday's objections in the US Congress to Electoral College representations of the Presidential Election as held in Ohio. If there was a point at which Ms. Gwinn saw a purpose to any question whatsoever regarding her powerful involvement in politics in this town, I don't know when or where it was. And she ain't talkin' about MoveOn.org. Where to, fearless leader? More >
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