"Once, in autumn, I saw the sun
pause in the wrinkles of a tree
like passion on an old man’s face...."
What lines! You feel the rough skin of the trees rubbing on words. As if the universe of words overstepping the universe of things !
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No matter to what high you rise, to what low you sink, you can never escape discovering yourself where you are in the logging of the Life Divine. What a giant book and what sympathy the Super-Yogi should have had on human beings in pursuit, to have taken so much pains and time to have penned it! Thanks is a very self-shy meek word when one realises more and more the importance of the Book.
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A great philosopher of the logical positivist school, A J Ayer, was uncompromising in his stand that statements which do not lend themselves to empirical verification or analytical exercise are quite meaningless. A great hit at the traditional metaphysics indeed. He was not a shy away philosopher when he confronted the unwanted advances of Mike Tyson on a new model in a party given by a fashion designer, saying 'I suggest we talk about this like rational men'.
Just one year before his death, A J Ayer had a near-death experience. On recovery he said that the experience slightly weakened his conviction that his genuine death will be the end of him. Later he opined that he should have rather told instead 'my experiences have weakened, not my belief that there is no life after death, but my inflexible attitude towards that belief'.
Strange! We demand that we should experience ourselves to accept anything. But will we allow ourselves to accept our experiences?
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It seems there are quite a number of victims of History in the field of thought. One such seems to be Herbert Spencer. He is one who wrote about evolution years before Darwin. But of course minus the part of natural selection. But more comprehensive than Darwin's, in that, Herbert Spencer was able to talk about evolution in the spheres of society, culture. What he wrote seems to be that evolution works towards more perfection, from the gross and banal and militant towards being more cooperative, finer and humane mutual transactions. But, lo...! history being sometimes reckless and devoid of any considering... has branded HS with the idea of 'social darwinism'.
( History..! sometimes you do not read your texts well... be good and behave well..! :-) )
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The human gaze has the power of conferring value on things; but it makes them cost more too.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
என் நெஞ்சினால் நோக்கிக் காணீர், என்னை முனியாதே !
- நம்மாழ்வார்
(The modern artists may say, 'look! don't ask for meaning. You confer meaning by your Gaze...:-) - just for kidding...)
(The modern artists may say, 'look! don't ask for meaning. You confer meaning by your Gaze...:-) - just for kidding...)
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