Painted Cake
You cannot eat a painted cake.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
A Different Point of View
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
And so does great art.
The Room with a Balcony by Adolph von Menzel 1845
A Hopeful Case
A child is hope personified.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
A Masked Truth
When learning to meditate, we need a good teacher because the fraud committed on us is so close to home.
We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that we end up being disguised to ourselves.
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Saturday, January 4, 2020
A Biased Opinion
True meditation can be described as the ongoing effort to deepen the awareness of our own cognitive biases.
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If you work hard at being lazy, you are a hard worker.
Total Eclipse
The ego eclipses true intelligence.
The Wrong Approach
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A Double Bind
A definition of ignorant might be a person who is unaware that he is unaware .