He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars;General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer:For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.- William Blake, Jerusalem This was originally written for my students. What is an idea? Ideas are partitions of the senses, both present… Continue reading

God remembered Noah, all those alive, and all the animals with him in the ark. God sent a wind over the earth so that the waters receded. The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain. The waters receded gradually from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, the waters… Continue reading

To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hourA Robin Red breast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a RageA Dove house filld with Doves & PigeonsShudders Hell thr’ all its regions – William Blake, Auguries of Innocence… Continue reading

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only… Continue reading

What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life. – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations 226e Deep within the Cave, the shadows on the wall take the form of words, words grouping into ideas, ideas into concepts, concepts into habits, and habits into forms of life. There is… Continue reading