In history-as-politics, the \\’future\\’
In history-as-politics, the ‘future’ is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen. Edward Abbey
Antics
Every time you create
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger Eckhart Tolle
So the single most
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at … Read more
So the single most
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Eckhart Tolle
He [Jesus] speaks in
He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little … Read more
I recall an incident
I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey’s antics as in any human act. … Read more
John Kerry wants to
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt. Douglas Brinkley
Nothing fans me into
Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning, not from vanity always, but frequently because it is all he has got; no real sense, no wisdom of his own, merely much good stuff he has learned from other sources. He spreads … Read more
Methamphetamine is so Flowers
Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records. Clint Catalyst
I’m more likely to
I’m more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines. Clayton Snyder