A Blessedly Quiet Place….
From the very beginning the Omphalos Cafe was conceived as a quiet place, a place away from the tumult …
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You ARE The Current!….
” …[T]his current of life, traversing the bodies it has organized one after another, passing from generation to generation, …
Time Lapse….
“… [L]ife is like a current passing from germ to germ through the medium of a developed organism.“—Henri Bergson, …
On Krishnamurti, James Joyce, And History….
Let me warn you: this post is far too long. It is an email I woke up and sent …
A Final Word (Maybe) From The Doors Of Perception….
I’ll share one more extended quote from Aldous Huxley’s The Doors Of Perception before putting it back on the …
We Use Words Far Too Much….
I take long walks up into the hills behind my place almost every day now. Yesterday with a light …
The Magic Bus!
I’m sitting in the driver’s seat of an empty bus. ‘C’ crew has disembarked for their shift at the …
Words Fail, Again and Again….
I include ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Zen,’ even ‘poetry’ and ‘yoga’ in the tags when I publish one of these mild …
Sage Advice….
Gully and Coker have just left the home of Sarah in Joyce Cary’s effulgent classic The Horse’s Mouth. To …
For Madmen Only!
Those are the words which confronted Hermann Hesse’s fictional self Harry Haller while strolling the dark medieval streets of …
