Philosophy Entropy | 26 May 2006
Insight by Robert Pirsig..
Metaphysics is not what Aristotle called the First Philosophy. It’s a collection of the the most general statements of a hierachical structure of thought. On one of his slips he had copied a definition of it as “that part of philosophy which deals with the nature and structure of reality” It asks [...]
Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 24 May 2006
On May 18, 1864, Nathaniel Hawthorne died at age 59 in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Born into a seafaring family, he grew up in Salem,Massachusetts and formally turned to a writing career after graduating from Bowdoin College (a classmate was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). He struggled for years before moving to Concord, Massachusetts, where he began to [...]
Life & Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 17 May 2006
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love , for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It [...]
Life & Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 17 May 2006
The most authentic thing about us
Is our capacity to create, to overcome,
To endure, to transform, to love,
And to be greater than our suffering.
~Ben Okri
Economic Behaviour & Life & Thought Provoking Entropy | 11 May 2006
This is a thought provoking article by Subroto Bagchi
It is late March in Scotland. The drive from Manchester to Dundee through the magical Lake District of England, onto unfolding green landscape dotted with grazing sheep and horses in barns, soothes me. As our car begins to leave all that behind and the beautiful, expansive river [...]
Life & Meditation-Introspection & Sprituality Entropy | 09 May 2006
The Talmud teaches:
Just before a baby is born,
an angel shows it everything there is to know and learn
on Earth.
Then at the moment of birth,
the angel touches the infant’s upper lip,
and the child forgets everything.
We spend the rest of our lives remembering
what the angel showed us.