buy Lyrica from india How is it that no one ever told me about Thomas Traherne before? Do not wonder that I promise to fill it [this book] with those Truths you love but know not; for though it be a maxim in the schools that there is no Love of a thing unknown yet I have found that […]
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Centuries of Meditations
26-Feb-20On Love and Marriage.
23-Nov-14http://beccajcampbell.com/writing/the-power-of-the-spoken-word-or-the-one-where-i-reveal-what-really-happens-in-the-shower A brilliant sermon on love, marriage, and monogamy, by Jonathan Sacks, given at the Vatican. This is well worth the time to read. Whenever you see good sermonizing it is amazing how bad the normal stuff is. This is a defense of monogamy which actually works: not by demonizing alternatives but by showing the virtue […]
The Game by Neil Strauss.
25-Dec-13Generally if a book recurs in conversation time and again for years, I get around to reading it. As a single person who has never had any particular desire to be single, dating is a common theme of discussion, and one of the standard variants of that discussion occurs when I speak with my some […]
A Christian Pope!
01-Nov-13Almost everything in life that you’re supposed to do is obvious – I think most people can look back on only four or five serious decisions in their life (which haunt us forever, of course) when we really do not know what the right thing to do is. But it is so unusual, so horribly […]
Some Thoreau.
02-Oct-13What a writer this guy is. And so beautiful a soul. On loneliness: But like those women of Malamocco and Pelestrina [towns on the Venetian lagoon], who when their husbands are fishing at sea, repair to the shore and sing their shrill songs at evening, till they hear the voices of their husbands in reply […]
Love.
14-Aug-13“No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.” – Arthur Schnitzler, quoted by Clive James. I’ve been reading James’ Cultural Amnesia, a fine book; essentially excerpts from James’ commonplace-book with essays built around them, on a general theme. Probably for personal reasons, my […]
Love and Being Loved.
06-Nov-11The rest of this poem is nothing special to me, but I was very affected by these lines of Philip Larkin: In everyone there sleeps A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make By loving others, but across most it sweeps As all they might have […]
Erich Fromm’s Art of Loving.
14-Dec-10I take as true and interesting the following statement of Erich Fromm: There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love. If this were the case with any other activity, people would be eager to know the reasons for the […]
Divine Mercy.
14-Jun-10Incredible readings in Church today, and relevant to the moment. The sin of David with Uriah (I must confess I think about this story all the time, since Jung pointed out to me that Uriah is a figure of Christ), Paul’s letter to the Galatians (always amazing), and the following from the Gospel, on the […]
The Problem of Love.
17-Nov-13“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.” So sung a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the cattle’s feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: “Love seeketh only Self to please, To […]