Tao and words
The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
Thomas Merton
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It is experience that is the ultimate teacher. That is why wise people travel constantly and test themselves against the flux of circumstance.
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More than twenty years ago, I was a member of an amateur choral group that performed a Mozart Litany (K. 125). While it may have lacked the grandeur of the Verdi Requiem or the Beethoven Choral, it was the most … Continue reading
The Present Monument IV: Performance
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The Present Monument III: Perspective
Time as succession, past and to come, . . . eternity itself, exists in present thought, is contained in the fleeting passage of the moment, so far as that passage compels the direct intuition of a thinking being. — G.L.S. … Continue reading
The Present Monument II: Perception
. . . a realistic grasp of time opens onto the longing for eternity. — Robert Cummings Neville Monuments and moments occupy and share time. We describe the one as enduring and the other as fleeting, the long and short … Continue reading