Sunday, March 8, 2009

Reading: Past, Present, Future

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Reading Now:

Theo-Logic: Vol. 1, The Truth of the World
Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Read Once, Reading Forever:

The Bible NRSV

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Reading Next:

Introduction to the Work of Bion
Leon Grinberg

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Back Burner:

Aristotle: Physics
Glen Coughlin

Aristotle: De Anima
R.D. Hicks

Keys of Gnosis
Robert Bolton

On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding
Michael Novak

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Sacred Art and other fine books read (since 27 Jan 07):

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Desert Father: In the Desert with Saint Anthony
James Cowan

The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing
Bernard McGinn

Liberty and Tyranny
Mark R. Levin

Common Sense
Thomas Paine

The Parables of Our Lord
Rev. William Arnot

Michael Polanyi
Mark T. Mitchell

Everyman Revived: The Common Sense of Michael Polanyi
Drusilla Scott

The Spiritual Ascent: A Compendium of the World's Wisdom
Whitall N. Perry

The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition
Andrew Louth

The Orthodox Church
Timothy Ware

Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts
Frithjof Schuon

Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness
Satprem

Lazarus, Come Forth!
Valentin Tomberg

Meditations on the Tarot
Anonymous/Unknown Friend

Leisure the Basis of Culture
Josef Pieper

The Sabbath
Abraham Joshua Heschel

From the Divine to the Human
Frithjof Schuon

Matsuo Basho
Makoto Ueda

One Cosmos Under God (3 times)
Robert W. Godwin

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Previous to 27 Jan 07, "My little bible":

Man's Search for Meaning (no way of knowing how many times)
Viktor E. Frankl
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My Synchronicities Here

Seemingly unrelated things
keep becoming connected
to each other right under my nose.
I’m not at all looking for them.
But they keep happening…
as if they can’t stop happening.
I think they happen to everyone.
But what to make of them?
I’ve decided I can’t keep ignoring,
just in case.
And I’ll place some of the
‘bigger’ ones here,
among other things,
so I won’t forget them,
and maybe you can
help me with them too.
I sense there is meaning,
not sure in all of them,
but I intend to find out.
"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
-Hemingway
If you spend a lot of time with a small suitcase it is amazing how much can be packed into it; which makes for wonderfully light traveling. No burden at all in the long run. I think the packing will get easier with practice, but by then I suppose it will be time for a new one from so much wear.
You can’t read a book running down the street.
I have had many affairs with words and am sorry to say that I did not treat some of them as well as they deserved. But at least one of them you can be sure I never fooled around with and this word is serious.
Was last night scribbling, and much to my surprise noticed I’d penned a small joke in my corner. I said quietly, “Oh wonderful. She will surely like this one.” But I’m afraid, you see, it seems the little punching fellow has slipped between my fingers. I’ll try to catch you another today.
No law of man protects him from all the places he should not go.
Don’t trust a machine. It can’t return the compliment.
To reject a mountain for a fissure is simply a waste of perfectly good mountain.
You cannot hit the broadside of a mountain with a fissure.
For all things are linked together: if the intelligence directly has need of rigor, it also indirectly has need of beauty.

~ Frithjof Schuon
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.
~ Hemingway
I know two Jewish men. They are my neighbors. One could not care less and the other is a good man. I will never understand the first one.
I hear a train but do not see it. Should I consider it does not exist? I see a flower and it speaks to me. This does not exist?
The boat builder goes with the flood and just dries to keep up.
Everyone may have a picture of what it looks like right before it snows. On the way to work this morning I drove though mine.
Scripture will not let us down. But we can let it down.
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All symbols, words, phrases…will become saturated.
Forget what you know, and try to re-member what they mean.

Hemingway said,

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."

I think this was something he tried to do; an activity with purpose, beyond what came natural to him. I may be wrong about this being his practice, but I believe it is still a good one. We must reactivate words in order to restore their meaning.
The amount of remaining baggage may not eliminate the burden of a good decision.
Remove the pyramid top and you remove the name.
The Devil is the details.
NOTICE:
By order of the Author, these premesses are hereby opened due to lack of innerest.
What’s all this talk about meaning, as if she doesn’t exist.
She’s right here in the room with us!
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Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.
~ Thomas Paine