Monthly Archives: August 2013

Ultimate Sensibility

‘Tis in the information and knowing, like so much else, as I discussed in previous early entries… Ultimate sensibility is basically a blend and/or union of the experiences of sensitivity to sensory stimuli (the physical, empirical, phenomenological world) and/with consciousness … Continue reading

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Perspective

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, Huge … Continue reading

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A Call to Poetry, 1967 A.D.

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms Seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That … Continue reading

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Walden

  facsimile of Thoreau’s cabin near pond

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Henry David Thoreau

Quotes from Walden, “Walking”, and Reflections at Walden -I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and … Continue reading

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Walt Whitman

“I am large….I contain multitudes.”–“Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass

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Freedom: Largely an Inner Matter

Many people view freedom as being external-based or external-caused. “If I go on a cruise, I will be free.” “If I had some extra money, I could buy a house.” On the surface, it may look to many as if … Continue reading

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Context, Environment, and Heredity

More on limits and limitations and what makes us who or what we are. Context I’ve discussed already in a previous entry. We are always in a context at any given moment in our life. It is in those contexts … Continue reading

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Of Cages: Limits, Freedom, and Awareness

The yellow bird flitting from one perch to another in its cage, looking out on the enclosed street with its trees, gardens, and a pigeon walking on the ground. The cages of our lives and how we desire to be … Continue reading

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No Greater Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove; O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and … Continue reading

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