Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Saturday, May 23, 2015
I am You - You are Me
Labels:
consciousness,
human,
illusions,
love,
peace,
perspective,
quantum physics,
self,
universe
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
What On Earth Will It Take ?
Labels:
action,
altruism,
banks,
corporations,
corruption,
earth,
future,
greed,
human condition,
love,
peace,
poison,
pollution,
possibilities,
sustainable
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
the time is now
Labels:
deviant,
genius,
human condition,
imagination,
love,
now,
philosophy,
time,
truth
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Monday, December 8, 2014
the creator's glory
Should guilty seek asylum here,
Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator's glory.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
androcles and the lion
The earliest form of the story is found in the fifth book of Aulus Gellius's 2nd century Attic Nights. The author relates there a story told by Apion in his lost work Aegyptiacorum ("Wonders of Egypt"), the events of which Apion claimed to have personally witnessed in Rome. In this version, Androcles is given the Latin name of Androclus, a runaway slave of a former Roman consul administering a part of Africa. He takes shelter in a cave, which turns out to be the den of a wounded lion. He removes a large thorn from the animal's foot pad, forces pus from the infected wound, and bandages it. As a result, the lion recovers and becomes tame toward him, acting like a domesticated dog, including wagging its tail and bringing home game that it shares with the slave.
After several years, the slave eventually craves a return to civilization, resulting in his imprisonment as a fugitive slave and condemnation to be devoured by wild animals in the Circus Maximus of Rome. In the presence of an unnamed emperor, presumably either Caligula or Claudius, the most imposing of these beasts turns out to be the same lion, which again displays its affection toward the slave. The emperor pardons the slave on the spot, in recognition of this testimony to the power of friendship, and he is left in possession of the lion. Apion then continues:
"Afterwards we used to see Androclus with the lion attached to a slender leash, making the rounds of the tabernae throughout the city; Androclus was given money, the lion was sprinkled with flowers, and everyone who met them anywhere exclaimed, This is the lion, a man's friend; this is the man, a lion's doctor." (read more)
Saturday, October 25, 2014
die well
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods."
Sunday, October 12, 2014
a hero of freedom
Labels:
freedom,
government,
human rights,
liberal,
liberation,
liberty,
love,
man,
sex,
women
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Friday, September 26, 2014
Ubuntu
According to Michael Onyebuchi Eze, the core of ubuntu can best be summarized as follows:
"A person is a person through other people" strikes an affirmation of one’s humanity through recognition of an "other" in his or her uniqueness and difference.
It is a demand for a creative intersubjective formation in which the "other" becomes a mirror (but only a mirror) for my subjectivity.
This idealism suggests to us that humanity is not embedded in my person solely as an individual; my humanity is co-substantively bestowed upon the other and me.
Humanity is a quality we owe to each other. We create each other and need to sustain this otherness creation.
And if we belong to each other, we participate in our creations: we are because you are, and since you are, definitely I am.
The "I am" is not a rigid subject, but a dynamic self-constitution dependent on this otherness creation of relation and distance".
(ubuntu philosophy) (nelson mandela) (paradise or oblivion)
Labels:
compassion,
gift,
humanity,
humility,
love,
peace,
philosophy
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