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Category Archives: Spirit

“I Am Essentially A Religious Person…”

June 14, 2012

“It goes without saying that I am essentially a religious person, and always have been.”—Henry Miller, The World Of Sex …

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Humankind… The Tool Maker

May 23, 2012

“My guess is it probably started somewhere between twenty-five and seventy-five thousand years ago, when Homo Neanderthal was gradually being …

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A Mask Of God

May 7, 2012

“Symbols hold the mind to truth but are not themselves truth, hence it is delusory to borrow them. Each civilization, …

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An Indictment Of Modern Education

April 18, 2012

I knew the day would come when I would have to include these quotes in the Omphalos Cafe record.    …

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Mead Of The Muse

April 17, 2012

“Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses   No long winded disquisition here. …

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Words With A Certain Ring Of Truth

April 16, 2012

“The contrast between a tribal community and an eminently modern, urban agglomeration is one of extremes—from a spiritual, metaphysical standpoint …

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Words Flowering From A Quiet Place

April 14, 2012

Quiet words issuing from a quiet place So quiet and still They cannot be heard Except By the quietest hearts …

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Four (ok five) Quotes Around An Unseen Center

March 27, 2012

“God is in all things as being, as activity, as power.”—Meister Eckhart, c. 1300 “Eckhart, of course, was excommunicated: by …

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Better Late Than Never, I Suppose

March 21, 2012

“And the second [Spenglarian pseudomorphoses] might be termed the Levantine revenge; namely, the massive diffusion of Pauline Christianity over the …

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These? These Are Not My Truths….

March 20, 2012

The Omphalos. The Hub around which it all revolves. “Around which what revolves?” I hear someone say. It. Everything. Life, …

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