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Pain. Feel the pain.Go to the centre of it.In the centre, a flame.A cool, warm, steady, white, white flameso white, thatit is more light than white.Cool as detachment.Warm as love.Bright as enlightenment;burning the unnecessary.The flame of healing,as old as the world.As old as olive trees and oil and sacred lamps,as old as wisdom.In the flame,…

near the shortest day,the seasons all confused this yeareven the great globe itselfconfused by manand on this gusty daya rose throwsitself upon the worldsimultaneously hero, heroine, victimseen calling through the window;if it were a child alone out thereyou would rush out to save itdoes the rose knowhow beautiful it is?or is it wiser than we…

from the true (and, it’s hoped, the good)into the beautiful:poetry; sculpture; machinery of wood and metalsuch as that which raised the Parthenon;raised Apollo, Venus, out of stone;raised myth out of poetry.And I, we, too have technologyforever at our finger-tips..Did it happen through chance,through procrastination,or through attention givento a task and needs,this ‘beautiful’ solutionthat mathematicians talk…

ring to it – spoken in the severest tonesin some headmaster’s study in the skies…and you, feeling that this is the last chanceto rake up all your worst, your very worstmemories that still chill your heart after all these years,so you try not to think about them…so, to ease the sense that fate’s about to…

illusions film illusions;reality’s the frame…But Hindus have the best seatsin real life’s picture-house:resting in eternity,watching all else pass..*(occasioned by reading the ‘Hindupedia’ website on Dharma, Ayurveda, and much else..)

indolequinone, and dihydroxyindole carboxylic acid,which are in all of us, affectingskin and hair color and evenpresent in the eye and its colorand the brain too; the wordcomes from the Greek for ‘black’It is believed that all of us whose ancestorslived near the Equator, andthat could be all of us yeahoriginally had black skins,inherited suntan if…

the One whom atheists deny(for then they would have to acknowledgeOne greater than themselves…)knew, knows, about humility…?I mean, how could He?Suppose, He hadn’t sentsuch men as Jesus Christto show us that humilitywas, is, godly, and indeed,a path to know that One?Would we then be treatingthe humble as the self-victimisingscum of the earth? And we, assured…

and the rain-forests of mercy, alike –trampling temples, churches, mosquesin some apparent iconoclasm –scattering and shattering equipmentin the laboratories of men –seeking a wise mahout who will tameand understand its wildness,or a Darwin who will zoo it,watch it tenderly, take notes…no, evolution is a precious golden glimpseinto the mind of – name That as you…

which would be better known by that old term,‘un-knowing’ – free of guilt or sin in onewho knows the truth and, knowingly, denies..un-knowing should be celebrated; assome youthful minor god in painted scenes:adolescent in the goddess Wisdom’ssplendid train; gazing up at her,clear-browed; wide-eyed; attention at the leash;not-knowing – like a runner on the blocks,contained; elastic…

as foolishness and folly; forI talk of boundless things, and of infinity;which by their nature, are beyondthe human mind, the human pen;should I then not and never speak of such?Or are these boundless thingsjust what mankind should talk about –seeking the laws of atoms, or of space, onlyto find the boundlessness yet further offthan men…

that film that’s forever unreleased:we’re sitting there, quiet,comfortable in each other’s company;there’s an anticipatory pause asI turn to her and say‘You’ve been a brilliant mother…’and it doesn’t matter how she replies;I’ve said it at last…perhaps if I do the retake withevery time, more care in detail(faint background music? No;that would make it artificial…)do the retake,…

he’s moved up the line; now he’s got that end cell.All legal processes have been tested.Of course his lawyers will fight once again –a pardon’s out of the question, of course,but maybe just a lifer? (He’s spent half of itbehind bars anyway.) At Association Time,if it’s allowed, the others look at himcovertly – how’s he…