August 31, 2010 – 3:54 pm
I am what I look like. These six little words are big enough to cover the whole reason for our plight. They say it all. Or, to elaborate somewhat: I am here, for myself, what I look like over there, to you – as if our distance made no difference! On this morass you and [...]
August 31, 2010 – 10:43 am
Living in a big city comes with certain built in social interactions. One is the obligatory requests for spare cigarettes, spare change, and offers of window washing that come with filling up your car with gas. It’s such a normal part of the routine that it fades into the background in short order.
Lately though these [...]
August 15, 2010 – 1:27 am
This business of having seen It first in the Himalayas is formalistic nonsense. (I was writing this for The Saturday Evening Post and its millions of readers.) The mark of people who really see Who they are here is that when they see it they say, Gosh, of course, I know this, [...]
The little one’s knowledge is the ending of wonder. The Big One’s knowledge is the beginning of wonder. The little one is heady and knowing and smart. He’ll buy knowledge at the expense of mystery every time, and sooner or later it gives him a splitting headache. The Big One buys [...]
This is a very good bargain. Trading one tiny thing in the universe for the whole darn lot. It’s so profitable! To exchange this one mortal non OK thing for the whole world. (Douglas Harding. On Having No Head. DVD.)
