This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently, that each simple substance is a perpetual, living mirror of the universe. Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology The basic unit of reality is personhood:… Continue reading

Do not make an idol for yourself – no form whatsoever – of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. Do not bow down to them or worship them… Exodus 20.4-5 (CEB) First, we act. Grasp, walk, touch, taste. Then, we sign. “Grasp, walk, touch,… Continue reading

Anxiety is neither a category of necessity nor a category of freedom; it is entangled freedom, where freedom is not free in itself but entangled, not by necessity, but in itself. Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety The problem with philosophy is that it never answers why. Philosophy is a history of questions that we… Continue reading

Busy, busy, busy. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle Bundled branch, see: time golems hillhaunt the hallowed hollow.(Why, exactly? — the principle of sufficient reason fails to say anything about will or won’t they) I fail to see the reason, Crow Mountain.Start with a sound. Po-ét, poète, poētēs, *kwoiwo-, *kwei-“I make it often, but I never talk… Continue reading

Leave the letter that never begins to go find the latter that ever comes to end, written in smoke and blurred by mist and signed of solitude, sealed at night. James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake Who but the mountain knows the cave? We are not hollow; opaque jewel of coalstone depths melting magmic into places unspoken.… Continue reading