Discarded

I can see why

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I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return it? Afraid that love doesn’t last? Doesn’t really exist? Afraid if her own father can withdraw his love (or at least the manifestation of his love), that maybe she somehow isn’t worthy of … Read more

…I had grown up

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…I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has … Read more

The idea that the

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The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man’s head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem … Read more

…Blessed be the heart

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…Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. – where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is, it could always be worse, but isn’t… and the thought that things could always be better and the bitter unhappiness this creates is discarded! Frithjof Schuon

Whenever the truth is

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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own … Read more