Bloomsday Is An Intellectual Game… Dedalusday A Spiritual Journey
“Bloomsday is an intellectual game… Dedalusday is a spiritual journey.”—Xenon “When Zen gives utterance to itself, it goes against the …
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“I Am Essentially A Religious Person…”
“It goes without saying that I am essentially a religious person, and always have been.”—Henry Miller, The World Of Sex …
Gravitational Pull… Of The Soul
“I believe that one must pass beyond the sphere and influence of art. Art is only a means to life, …
You Write, I Write, We All Write….Right?
“I eschew all clear cut interpretations: with increasing simplification the mystery heightens. What I know tends to become more and …
Humankind… The Tool Maker
“My guess is it probably started somewhere between twenty-five and seventy-five thousand years ago, when Homo Neanderthal was gradually being …
Back To Basics (Life)
“I adjure you by the living God Almighty and by your duty to our Order and by the love you …
A Poets Line
No, not what passes for poetry these days. Satire, lamentation, misty longing, erotic yearning, or even fleeting exuberance, verbose and …
An Indictment Of Modern Education
I knew the day would come when I would have to include these quotes in the Omphalos Cafe record. …
Four (ok five) Quotes Around An Unseen Center
“God is in all things as being, as activity, as power.”—Meister Eckhart, c. 1300 “Eckhart, of course, was excommunicated: by …
Better Late Than Never, I Suppose
“And the second [Spenglarian pseudomorphoses] might be termed the Levantine revenge; namely, the massive diffusion of Pauline Christianity over the …
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