People incapable of taking pleasure in expressing themselves are not likely to be much good at conversation.
Russell Baker, “Talking It Up,” NYRB (May 11, 2006)
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Monday, April 24, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Saturday, March 11, 2006
What seems clear is that the US, which grew more rapidly than other nations for most of its history, came to depend on such growth to solve its social problems in ways other nations did not….If American family incomes do not continue to grow, it may become increasingly difficult to mobilize broad support for a government committed to social equity and public investment.
Jeff Madrick, “The Way to a Fair Deal,” NYRB (January 12, 2006)
Jeff Madrick, “The Way to a Fair Deal,” NYRB (January 12, 2006)
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
In this context, the Director stated that he feels relieved that he is not dismissed for corruption or for not performing of municipal duties but only for construction an individual house at the location for which unfortunately the permits are not issued yet. He also said: "if my house hinders urbanism of the city in any way, I will personally blow it up."
From a dismissed Municipal Director of Inspections in Kosovo to the Municipal Assembly.
From a dismissed Municipal Director of Inspections in Kosovo to the Municipal Assembly.
Monday, January 23, 2006
"I think all of my life and all of everybody's life we have had struggles," he said. "You can act like the storm doesn't exist, you can go through it or you can go above it. I have chosen to ride above the storm, and God will carry me over to the other side."
Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry, January 15, 2006 (as quoted in the Washington Post).
Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry, January 15, 2006 (as quoted in the Washington Post).
Friday, January 13, 2006
Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe that they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames up and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.
Ivo Andric, The Bridge Over The Drina.
Ivo Andric, The Bridge Over The Drina.
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Monday, November 28, 2005
So, on the kapia, between the skies, the river and the hills, generation after generation learnt not to mourn overmuch what the troubled waters had borne away. They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured “like the bridge on the Drina.”
Ivo Andric, The Bridge Over The Drina.
Ivo Andric, The Bridge Over The Drina.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
You, children, be zealous for the
beautiful gifts of the
violetlapped Muses
and for the clear songloving lyre.
But my skin once soft is now
taken by old age,
my hair turns white from black.
And my heart is weighed down
and my knees do not lift,
that once were light to dance as
fawns.
I groan for this. But what can I
do?
A human being without old age is
Not a possibility.
There is the story of Tithonos,
loved by Dawn with her arms
of roses
and she carried him off to the
ends of the earth
when he was beautiful and young.
Even so was he gripped
by white old age. He still has his
deathless wife.
Sappho, Fragment 58, translated by Anne Carson (NYRB, October 20, 2005)
beautiful gifts of the
violetlapped Muses
and for the clear songloving lyre.
But my skin once soft is now
taken by old age,
my hair turns white from black.
And my heart is weighed down
and my knees do not lift,
that once were light to dance as
fawns.
I groan for this. But what can I
do?
A human being without old age is
Not a possibility.
There is the story of Tithonos,
loved by Dawn with her arms
of roses
and she carried him off to the
ends of the earth
when he was beautiful and young.
Even so was he gripped
by white old age. He still has his
deathless wife.
Sappho, Fragment 58, translated by Anne Carson (NYRB, October 20, 2005)
Monday, October 31, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
You must always be careful in the jungle. I listen to my dreams. If I have a dream of danger, then I stay in the village. Many accidents happen to white people because they don’t believe their dreams.
Vajuvi, of the Kalapalo people of the Brazilian Amazon as quoted in the New Yorker of September 19, 2005.
Vajuvi, of the Kalapalo people of the Brazilian Amazon as quoted in the New Yorker of September 19, 2005.
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
We prune our minds to fit them into the garden of ordinary life. We exclude from our consciousness all sorts of knowledge that we have acquired because it might distract us from the problems we must solve if we are to go on living, and it might even make us doubt whether it is prudent to live. But sometimes it is necessary for us to know where we are in eternity as well as time, and we must lift this ban. Then we must let our full knowledge invade our minds, and let our memories of birth crawl like serpents from their cave and our foreknowledge of death spread its wide shadow.
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
All women believe that some day something supremely agreeable will happen, and that afterwards the whole of life will be supremely agreeable. All men believe that some day they will do something supremely disagreeable, and that afterwards life will move on so exalted a plane that all considerations of the agreeable and disagreeable will prove petty and superfluous.
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Saturday, August 20, 2005
It is not pleasant to admit that we know almost nothing, so little that, for lack of knowledge, our actions are wild and foolish. It is not pleasant to be bound to the task of learning all our days, to be under the obligation to go on learning even though it involves making acquaintance with pain, although we know that we must die still in ignorance. To do these things it is necessary to have faith in what is entirely hidden and unknown, to cast away all the acquisitions and certainties which would ensure a comfortable existence lest they should impede us on a journey which may never be accomplished, which never even offers comfort.
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Sunday, August 14, 2005
[W}e live in an uncomprehended universe, and...it is urgently necessary for sensitive men to look at each phenomenon in turn and find out what it is and what are its relations to the rest of existence. (Dubrovnik II)
He offered himself wholly to each event in order that he might learn in full what revelation it had to make about the nature of the universe. (Sarajevo VII)
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
He offered himself wholly to each event in order that he might learn in full what revelation it had to make about the nature of the universe. (Sarajevo VII)
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Carelessness and cruelty ... infects any power when it governs a people not its own without safeguarding itself by giving the subjects the largest possible amount of autonomy.
It seem very probable that Rome was able to conquer foreign territories because she had developed her military genius at the expense of precisely those qualities which would have made her able to rule them.
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
It seem very probable that Rome was able to conquer foreign territories because she had developed her military genius at the expense of precisely those qualities which would have made her able to rule them.
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Sunday, July 10, 2005
It is the habit of the people, whenever an old man mismanages his business so that it falls to pieces as soon as he dies, to say, "Ah, So-and-so was a marvel! He kept things together so long as he was alive, and look what happens now he has gone."
Rebecca West speaking about Emperor Franz Josef in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West speaking about Emperor Franz Josef in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Saturday, June 18, 2005
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
....
[A} cynic [is] a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
And a sentimentalist…is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
Oscar Wilde, Act III, Lady Windermere’s Fan
....
[A} cynic [is] a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
And a sentimentalist…is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
Oscar Wilde, Act III, Lady Windermere’s Fan
Thursday, June 16, 2005
The Balkans create more history than they can consume locally.
Saki (HH Munro) as quoted by Lord Burnham
Saki (HH Munro) as quoted by Lord Burnham
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Monday, June 13, 2005
How does a pattern of brain activity generate feeling? This is not a question about how that pattern of brain activity is generated, for that can be explained in the usual way, just as we explain how a pattern of activity in a car is or a kidney is generated. It is a question about how feeling itself is generated. Otherwise the feeling just remains something that is mysteriously (but reliably) correlated with certain brain patterns.
We don't know how brain activity could generate feeling. Even less do we know why.
Stevan Harnad, "Letters: What is Consciousness?" in the June 23, 2005 NYRB.
We don't know how brain activity could generate feeling. Even less do we know why.
Stevan Harnad, "Letters: What is Consciousness?" in the June 23, 2005 NYRB.
Monday, June 06, 2005
[T]rue politeness is a moral quality, whereby the self is abnegated (concealed, Pascal would have said) in order to further the happiness of the group.
Peter France, "The Pleasure of Their Company," in the June 23, 2005 NYRB.
Peter France, "The Pleasure of Their Company," in the June 23, 2005 NYRB.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
You always won, everytime you placed a bet
You’re still damn good, no one’s gotten to you yet
Everytime they were sure they had you caught
You were quicker than they thought
You’d just turn your back and walk
You always said, the cards would never do you wrong
The trick you said was never piay the game too long
A gambler’s share, the only risk that you would take
The only loss you could forsake
The only bluff you couldn’t fake.
Bob Seger, Still the Same
You’re still damn good, no one’s gotten to you yet
Everytime they were sure they had you caught
You were quicker than they thought
You’d just turn your back and walk
You always said, the cards would never do you wrong
The trick you said was never piay the game too long
A gambler’s share, the only risk that you would take
The only loss you could forsake
The only bluff you couldn’t fake.
Bob Seger, Still the Same
Monday, May 23, 2005
Saturday, May 21, 2005
[R]epublicanism has been revived as a modern ideology. Disillusion with classical liberalism, because it has led to unrestrained capitalism, and with Marxism, because it has resulted in political tyranny, has created a vogue for a “republican” philosophy, with a commitment to effective legal restraints upon the executive, an active ideal of participatory citizenship, and a belief that the collective good should take priority over private interest. Thus defined, “republicanism” appears to be an attractive, nonsocialist alternative to capitalism and globalization.
Keith Thomas, "Politics: Looking for Liberty" in the May 26, 2005 NYRB.
Keith Thomas, "Politics: Looking for Liberty" in the May 26, 2005 NYRB.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
...at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are....there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson to James Boswell, in his The Life of Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson to James Boswell, in his The Life of Samuel Johnson
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Monday, April 04, 2005
Do not, however, hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Samuel Johnson to James Boswell, in his The Life of Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson to James Boswell, in his The Life of Samuel Johnson
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Existence, for all organismic life, is a constant struggle to feed—a struggle to incorporate whatever other organisms they can fit into their mouths and press down their gullets without choking. Seen in these stark terms, life on this planet is a gory spectacle, a science-fiction nightmare in which digestive tracts fitted with teeth at one end are tearing away at whatever flesh they can reach, and at the other end are piling up the fuming waste excrement as they move along in search of more flesh.... Life cannot go on without the mutual devouring of organisms. If at the end of each person’s life he were to be presented with the living spectacle of all that he had organismically incorporated in order to stay alive, he might well feel horrified by the living energy he had ingested. The horizon of a gourmet, or even the average person, would be taken up with hundreds of chickens, flocks of lambs and sheep, a small herd of steers, sties fill of pigs and rivers of fish. The din alone would be deafening... each organism raises its head over a field of corpses, smiles into the sun, and declares life good.
Ernest Becker, Escape From Evil as quoted by the Shakespeare Theatre
Ernest Becker, Escape From Evil as quoted by the Shakespeare Theatre
Friday, March 25, 2005
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Friday, March 04, 2005
It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to how things really are — that I regard as the essence of bullshit.
Harry G. Frankfurt, as quoted in Defining Bullshit, Slate.
Harry G. Frankfurt, as quoted in Defining Bullshit, Slate.
Friday, February 25, 2005
...metabolism sets the pace for myriad biological processes. An animal with a high metabolic rate processes energy quickly, so it can pump its heart quickly, grow quickly, and reach maturity quickly. Unfortunately, that animal also ages and dies quickly....There is a universal biological clock..."but it ticks in units of energy, not units of time."
"Life on the Scales," Erica Klarreich, Science News, February 12, 2005
"Life on the Scales," Erica Klarreich, Science News, February 12, 2005
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Thursday, February 03, 2005
"Be still, and know that I am God." - Psalm 46.10
Rice in a Beggar's Bowl
Of all my thousand choices tonight
I walk into the snowy woods and wait.
Snow rests in peace
on each bough where it has fallen.
The branches are content to bow
like servants with their burdens,
as are all living things content
to wait.
I stand, hands in my pockets,
and let my life fall like snow
in the empty bowl of this meadow;
my mind becomes a slender branch.
My heart settles on the silent earth.
Attend to this moment
until it is enough.
Pastor Steve
Rice in a Beggar's Bowl
Of all my thousand choices tonight
I walk into the snowy woods and wait.
Snow rests in peace
on each bough where it has fallen.
The branches are content to bow
like servants with their burdens,
as are all living things content
to wait.
I stand, hands in my pockets,
and let my life fall like snow
in the empty bowl of this meadow;
my mind becomes a slender branch.
My heart settles on the silent earth.
Attend to this moment
until it is enough.
Pastor Steve
Monday, January 24, 2005
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Reading "Uncle Fred in the Springtime" -- very funny.
Try these online intros to Wodehouse:
Some online texts.
Some online quotes.
Amazon.com PG Wodehouse search.
Try these online intros to Wodehouse:
Some online texts.
Some online quotes.
Amazon.com PG Wodehouse search.
Friday, December 31, 2004
Friday, December 24, 2004
Friday, December 17, 2004
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Thursday, December 02, 2004
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. They know the lies the victors often do not acknowledge, the lies covered up in stately war memorials and mythic war narratives, filled with stories of courage and comradeship. They know the lies that permeate the thick, self-important memoirs by amoral statesmen who make wars but do not know war. The vanquished know the essence of war — death. They grasp that war is necrophilia. They see that war is a state of almost pure sin with its goals of hatred and destruction. They know how war fosters alienation, leads inevitably to nihilism, and is a turning away from the sanctity and preservation of life. All other narratives about war too easily fall prey to the allure and seductiveness of violence, as well as the attraction of the godlike power that comes with the license to kill with impunity.
Chris Hedges, "On War" The New York Review (December 16, 2004).
Chris Hedges, "On War" The New York Review (December 16, 2004).
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Saturday, November 06, 2004
If he would just take a plunge (always the Realtor’s fondest wish for mankind), banish fear, let loose the reins, think that instead of having suffered error and loss he’d survived them and that today is the first day of his new life, then he’d be fine and dandy. In other words, embrace in full the permanent period of life, live not as though he were going to die tomorrow but as though he might live.
Richard Ford, The Shore, The New Yorker, August 2, 2004
Richard Ford, The Shore, The New Yorker, August 2, 2004
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Wartime Washington
Today the maples are in flames,
The breeze so cool,
I need body armor.
The world is at war,
No truce, no quarter.
The words of an old song
Go through my brain.
How did I get here?
Whose life is this anyway?
Fuck it.
It doesn’t matter.
Today the maples are in flames.
And I have body armor.
GMG
Today the maples are in flames,
The breeze so cool,
I need body armor.
The world is at war,
No truce, no quarter.
The words of an old song
Go through my brain.
How did I get here?
Whose life is this anyway?
Fuck it.
It doesn’t matter.
Today the maples are in flames.
And I have body armor.
GMG
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Sky Blue
At 7 am
The sun was barely up.
Three hours later,
The shadows were still long on Rock Creek.
The sky shined a perfect blue,
With a brilliance so true
It juxtaposed
The trees –
Greens, reds, browns and golds
Already a bit of a cacophony –
Showing off the earth’s odd colors.
The artist who painted this picture,
However uncaring of life within the frame,
Set the stage with great beauty.
What more can we reasonably ask
Of any deity.
GMG
At 7 am
The sun was barely up.
Three hours later,
The shadows were still long on Rock Creek.
The sky shined a perfect blue,
With a brilliance so true
It juxtaposed
The trees –
Greens, reds, browns and golds
Already a bit of a cacophony –
Showing off the earth’s odd colors.
The artist who painted this picture,
However uncaring of life within the frame,
Set the stage with great beauty.
What more can we reasonably ask
Of any deity.
GMG
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Monday, October 11, 2004
All the exotic ingredients of alchemy – all the metals and minerals and compounds – are in truth one, and that singularity is neither more nor less than the person of the alchemist himself. If the base metal is in need of purification then so, even more so, is he. Out of the corruption and confusion he must find a oneness in which nature and divinity are reconciled. Out of the unstillness of his own impurity must come the transforming power to achieve redemption.
Alan Wall, The School Of Night
Alan Wall, The School Of Night
Saturday, October 09, 2004
October Season
Most trees still have their leaves,
Except for those on the boulevard,
Sickly from the fumes,
The sort the local electric company
Likes to “trim.”
Green leaves too,
With just fringes here and there,
Turning.
On quiet side streets,
Birds were singing
As if still in spring.
Confused about the season?
The squirrels running into the road,
Mouths stuffed with acorns.
They know.
GMG
Most trees still have their leaves,
Except for those on the boulevard,
Sickly from the fumes,
The sort the local electric company
Likes to “trim.”
Green leaves too,
With just fringes here and there,
Turning.
On quiet side streets,
Birds were singing
As if still in spring.
Confused about the season?
The squirrels running into the road,
Mouths stuffed with acorns.
They know.
GMG
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Water
Sunlight gleaming off the water,
Water where water should be.
A squirrel lies dead on the bridge,
That it gave its life crossing.
A bit of a strange place to die,
Suspended over the water.
Caterpillar
I see the caterpillar on the parkway
Too late.
I swerve.
Think I missed it.
I don’t look back.
Two poems from a bike ride, GMG.
Sunlight gleaming off the water,
Water where water should be.
A squirrel lies dead on the bridge,
That it gave its life crossing.
A bit of a strange place to die,
Suspended over the water.
Caterpillar
I see the caterpillar on the parkway
Too late.
I swerve.
Think I missed it.
I don’t look back.
Two poems from a bike ride, GMG.
Monday, October 04, 2004
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Where is the subject and where is the object if you are operating on your own brain? The point is made by the expression “what we are looking for is what is looking.” Consciousness involves a paradoxical self-reference, a ability taken for granted, to refer to ourselves separate from the environment.
Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe
Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Friday, June 04, 2004
Friday, May 28, 2004
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
His understanding lies, I think, rather in seeing large things largely than correctly....In the conduct of affairs he may perhaps be able to take so comprehensive a view as to render invention and expedient unnecessary.
Franklin Alexander, describing John Adams as quoted by David McCullough in his John Adams.
Franklin Alexander, describing John Adams as quoted by David McCullough in his John Adams.
Saturday, May 22, 2004
I am not going to speak to you at all about the justice or injustice of your conduct. I know very well that this word is nothing but noise, when it is a question of the general interest. I could speak to you about the means by which you could succeed, and ask you whether you are strong enough to play the role of oppressors; this would be closer to the heart of the matter. However I will not even do that, but I will confine myself to imploring you to cast your eyes on the nations who hate you: ask them; see what they think of you, and tell me to what extent you have resolved to make your enemies laugh at you.
Denis Diderot in June 1776 to John Wilkes in reference to British pursuit of war to suppress the American colonies, as quoted by Emma Rothschild in The New York Review (March 25, 2004).
Denis Diderot in June 1776 to John Wilkes in reference to British pursuit of war to suppress the American colonies, as quoted by Emma Rothschild in The New York Review (March 25, 2004).
Friday, April 30, 2004
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Monday, April 05, 2004
Sunday, March 28, 2004
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
…the lessons to be learned from Thucydides are no different from the ones that the tragic playwrights teach: that the arrogant self can become the abject Other; that failure to bend, to negotiate, inevitably results in terrible fracture; that, because we are only human, our knowledge is merely knowingness, our vision partial rather than whole, and we must tread carefully in the world.
Daniel Mendelsohn, “Theatres of War,” The New Yorker, January 12, 2004
Daniel Mendelsohn, “Theatres of War,” The New Yorker, January 12, 2004
Friday, March 05, 2004
Saturday, February 28, 2004
McQuillan walked into a bar and ordered martini after martini, each time removing the olives and placing them in a jar. When the jar was filled with olives and all the drinks consumed, the Irishman started to leave. "S' cuse me", said a customer, who was puzzled over what McQuillan had done,"what was that all about?" "Nothin', said the Irishman, "me wife just sent me out for a jar of olives!"
A martini joke, not an Irish joke: "He said, like James Bond? I said, yes, just like James Bond."
A martini joke, not an Irish joke: "He said, like James Bond? I said, yes, just like James Bond."
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
…all the provisions that He has [made] for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has made for the gratification of our nobler powers of intelligence and reason. He has given us reason to find out the truth, and the real design and true end of our existence.
A young John Adams as quoted by David McCullough in his John Adams.
A young John Adams as quoted by David McCullough in his John Adams.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Saturday, January 10, 2004
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Thursday, December 18, 2003
A pessimistic law of history was at work here. Many such mixed communities [as Nagorny Karabakh] coexisted for centuries, not just in the Caucasus but throughout Eurasia and North Africa. And yet they were, in reality, only held together by fear, the fear of what a brutal outside authority would do to them all if mutual tolerance broke down. When the external pressure was removed, whether it was the Caliphate, the Tsardom, the Ottoman or British Empire, or Soviet power, then the current of fear which enforced that mutual tolerance was switched off.
Neal Ascherson, In the Black Garden, New York Review of November 20, 2003.
Neal Ascherson, In the Black Garden, New York Review of November 20, 2003.
Friday, December 12, 2003
Monday, December 08, 2003
Friday, November 28, 2003
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
When and from where [the Sumerians] first settled near the Euphrates was much debated a generation ago, but without any clear consensus. People had settled the region and were growing crops by irrigation before 5000 BC; the best we can say is that the urbanized people who, before 3000 BC, first wrote Sumerian emerged out of this agricultural way of life and tradition without any obvious break.
Timothy Potts, in “Buried Between the Rivers”, New York Review, 9/25/2003
Timothy Potts, in “Buried Between the Rivers”, New York Review, 9/25/2003
Friday, October 24, 2003
Well I've been out walking,
I don't do that much talking these days,
These days--
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do.
I sit alone on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten,
My friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne, from These Days
I don't do that much talking these days,
These days--
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do.
I sit alone on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten,
My friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne, from These Days
Monday, October 20, 2003
Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the all.
Jesus said: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
Jesus said, "If they say to you 'Where did you come from?' say to them, 'We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord and established [itself] and became manifest through their image.'
From The Gospel of Thomas as quoted in the New York Review, Oct 23, 2003.
Jesus said: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
Jesus said, "If they say to you 'Where did you come from?' say to them, 'We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord and established [itself] and became manifest through their image.'
From The Gospel of Thomas as quoted in the New York Review, Oct 23, 2003.
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