Friday, August 1, 2014

Eight


The Now is easy.
People make it hard.

The Now is here.
People put it "there."

The ego is always wanting
this or that to complete itself.
The Now is always 
wanting this.

The mind is forever seeing itself
at the center of everything.
The Now is forever,
seeing.

By Daniel Skach-Mills

From The Tao of Now
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Evolution of Truth


All truth passes through three stages. 
First, it is ridiculed. 
Second, it is violently opposed. 
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. 

Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher (1788-1860)

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Monday, July 28, 2014

The Great War

Great War Monument in New Rochelle, NY

The war that was supposed to end all wars began exactly hundred years ago on July 28, 1914 and lasted till November 11, 1918. It is estimated that more than nine million soldiers perished on its battlefields.

The Great War changed the way wars were to be fought in the future. It completely altered the political map of the world. But most importantly, it set conditions for an outbreak of a war that was even more unimaginable in its scope.

“In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.”

 - Robert Hughes in "The Shock of the New"




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