lao tzu
not much of this makes sense to the western mind 
ensconced in duality and human superiority over nature 
together with human image gods
and of course one does not discuss the dao
read tao te ching 
(50 times)


william james
So the universe has always appeared to the natural mind as a kind of enigma, 
of which the key must be sought in the shape of some illuminating or power-bringing word or name. 
That word names the universe’s principle, and to possess it is after a fashion to possess the universe itself. 
'God’, ‘Matter’, ‘Reason’, ‘the Absolute’, ‘Energy’, are so many solving names. 
You can rest when you have them. You are at the end of your metaphysical quest.

But if you follow the pragmatic method, 
you cannot look on any such word as closing your quest. 
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, 
set it at work within the stream of your experience. 
It appears less as a solution, then, 
than as a program for more work, 
and more particularly as an indication of the ways in which existing realities may be changed.
from the lecture 'what pragmatism means'
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 alexandra david-neel
if you never really understood the dalai lama 
but found his compassion attractive 
here is your chance to contemplate a version of his background culture
beautiful presentations of aspects of branches of buddhism 
with discreet meanings and insightful rectitude 
read buddhism its doctrines and methods 

 

cj dennis

you do not talk about a poet, you read his poems (this from a song of rain)

 

weeps the sky at wipipee

far farina's folk are dippy

with sheer joy, while ballarat

shouts and flings aloft its hat

thirsty thackeringa yells;

taltabooka gladly tells

of a season wet and windy;

men rejoice on murrindindie;

kalioota's ceased complaining;

for it's raining- raining- raining!

 

 

pj hartigan

in the cycles of conditions on the farm

'we'll all be rooned said hanrahan before the year is out'

read it here

 

 

ellioth gruner

the farm of bob's childhood

 

 

fred mccubbin

bluegum leaves you can feel & smell

 

GK Chesterton

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists  

 

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