The Labyrinth Of Learning
“Few ever get to the heart of the labyrinth. Most of us crawl about the entrance, or else venture timidly …
Tag Archives: philosophy
A Western (Zen) Oneness
At the heart of the Omphalos Cafe is a Western approach to a oneness which, for want of a better …
New Wine… And No Skin
I’m thinking of Xenon, who could walk into any temple, any House of God, any ashram or Holy Site, hermitage …
Omphalos Blossoms
Space images courtesy of NASA
From There To Here… And Beyond
From the deepest darkest reaches To our own quaint little home Life is ALL there is
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 …
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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