In the beginning and so onMore
Tag Archives: joy
A Word about Words V of XIII, or, A Certain Impasse
In the beginning and so onMore
A Word about Words IV of XIII, or, Eloquence, what a shame!
Eloquence–what a shame! The words that really matter, that make people melt or go off to war or commit themselves to some inner vision, they tend to be so common as to be crude or vulgar. Hammer: how simple, but what it could build! Child: how ordinary, but its possibilities! Painter, writer, thespian, friend, enemy:…More
A Word about Words III of XIII, or, Those clumsy words
In the beginning and so onMore
A Word about Words II of XIII, or, You may say
In the beginning and so onMore
The Wasp
The other lives on earth, they have their visions too, and the planet as a habitable place, ecology, is derived from those visionsMore
The Doll
Always ask the thing its storyMore
Waterful World
Is not the space between heaven and earth like a bellows? –Tao te ChingMore
They’re probably black as tar
I can find everything without within, and vice versaMore
What is it to meditate on Christ?
Who do you say that I am? Matthew 16:15More
What a stupid thing, vengeance
For that humanity might be redeemed from revenge: that is for me the bridge to the highest hope and a rainbow after lashing storms. Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore
Stakes
But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see the growth of the saving power. –HeideggerMore
Behind the face of the moon we see
…just like the moon, life surely has a side that is perpetually turned away from us… –RilkeMore
A Note on Nihilism
It’s different, how an individual–especially a philosopher, trained how he could be trained in times of crises–faces the threat of nihilism and how it is faced generally, for members of a social body generally under its throes. While the former holds his head above, or at least at a distance–two or three centuries worth of…More
Shots of Poetry
I am a (poorly written) love letterMore
Love the Dust 