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Posted on April 23, 2019April 23, 2019

“the only wisdom within our grasp during our stay in the insoluble mystery of who and where and when we are is the wisdom of humility?”

Comment sections have a bad press, and one can understand when even the most innocuous YouTube video can have all sorts of rabid anger unleashed below. Sometimes, however, comments can…

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Posted on May 20, 2018May 15, 2018

Pentecost: The Dove Descending Breaks the Air

From Little Gidding, TS Eliot: The dove descending breaks the air With flames of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only…

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Posted on April 29, 2018April 29, 2018

“We tire of distraction or concentration. we sleep and are glad to sleep”

From “Choruses from the Rock”, T S Eliot: In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and…

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Posted on August 6, 2016

The third who always walks beside you

Who is the third who always walks beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road There is…

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