5-16-2021 “The symbol is the reflection of the eternal in and through the temporal.” Samuel Coleridge … Read More
Category Archives: aphorism
5-16-2021 If turtles give birth to turtles, and humans give birth to humans, to whom does Divinity give birth? … Read More
5-11-2021 “Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul’s self-attainment. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.” A.N. Whitehead … Read More
5-11-2021 “God enters through the wound.” Carl Jung … Read More
5-11-2021 Secular reason tends to objectify, thus overly narrowing its scope. A person of faith tends toward superstition, thus overly expanding their scope. Both may benefit from an awareness of the other’s flaws as a way of appreciating their own. … Read More
5-11-2021 “It is the belief and not the god that counts.” Wallace Stevens … Read More
5-8-2021 “The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history.” A.N. Whitehead … Read More
5-8-2021 “In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.” Carl Jung … Read More
5-8-2021 With Martin Buber, we can characterize the fundamental religious insight as the intuition that everything which is not I myself, is Thou; but also, when considered as a whole, is We. … Read More
5-8-2021 “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” H.L. Mencken … Read More