Inkling of the day:
There is no time for more than a little consciousness.
— Gregory Bateson
Category: Lightning the Dark
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Divine
How do we know that what we call divine is not human, and what we call human is not divine?
— Zhuangzi 6 (Cleary 1992, 104)
The Name
The wise is one alone, unwilling and willing to be spoken of by the name of Zeus.
— Heraclitus (Kahn)
Is the Creator unwilling or willing to be called by the name of God?
Ending the quest
You always find what you’re looking for in the last place you look.
Phenomenal
‘A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house,’ said Jesus (Matthew 13:57). And as Peirce said, ‘so it is also with phenomena’: ‘most of us seem to find it difficult to recognize the greatness and wonder of things familiar to us’ (CP 5.65, EP2:158).
This year i’d like to honour some universally familiar things,
recognize the greatness of the artist
who can do that with words and other signs,
and work with the play of wonder all around us
here in our own house.
Let us not be distracted as usual
by the unusual
or the infamies of the famous.
Errant
Buttle
One person’s distraction is another’s revelation – and vice versa.