Egon Friedell on Rousseau & Baba thoughts |
I have recently been enchanted by Egon Friedell's A Cultural History of the Modern Age. In the second volume, on pages 271-272, he writes in his masterful fashion of Rousseau. Wanting to win an essa...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT |
You-Hu |
"To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings."As
I understand it, Martin Buber taught that in encounter, we open ourselves to
the essence of another human being. He extende...
Posted by on Sat, 23 May 2009 19:52:00 GMT |
Jesus’s secrecy & Baba’s |
The Gospel of Mark makes clear that Jesus was secretive, not just about who he was. When casting out evil spirits (who knew who He was), Jesus forbade them from telling his identity. When ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:15:00 GMT |
On the New Life with Meher Baba |
This morning was rainy. I put Bruch's violin concerto on the stereo, and made myself a couple of poached eggs on toast and a cup of Irish Breakfast Tea. To crown the morning, I sat down wi...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:54:00 GMT |
...That we haved lived in the days of great troubadors... |
The immensity of a past that had no beginning, Of a future which will have no end: this is my singing; This, and the lover who has escaped from illusion and now faces The fearful chasm between him...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:16:00 GMT |
Lost child found |
It has been an intense Christmas, as a 12-year-old girl in my wife's side of the family was in a Cessna that went down in Panama. She was missing for days in a ferocious storm. Tonight we ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:33:00 GMT |
The beautiful word, "you" |
You have stooped down to heal the roots of the rose's pain,To bathe lepers, feed the poor and comfort the insane. You have shaken out before our eyes prospects of new dawns,But we, your lovers, ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:21:00 GMT |
Don Stevens’s books |
Don has written a number of books about Meher Baba and ways of pursuing the spiritual path to find a closer relationship to Meher Baba. In one of those boopks he talks about love and sex. ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:16:00 GMT |
Voice music |
Baba has said that one of the critical components of japa (repetition of God's name) is the creation of a harmonious sound that resonates forever through the universe. Inayat Khan has written ex...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:02:00 GMT |
Loving God |
"O Beloved, I know that when You are loved for the sake of love You feel pleased.
"But I do not experience love, and therefore I remember You through the medium of selfishness, knowing that my ignoran...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:11:00 GMT |
