#human thought

Adam naming the beasts :: William Blake detail

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XII.

If we have become a people incapable of thought, then the brute-thought of mere power and mere greed will think for us.

If we have become incapable of denying ourselves anything, then all that we have will be taken from us.

If we have no compassion, we will suffer alone, we will suffer alone the destruction of ourselves.

These are merely the laws of this world as known to Shakespeare, as known to Milton:

When we cease from human thought, a low and effective cunning stirs in the most inhuman minds.

Have You Listened To A Really Good Indian Raga Lately?

George Harrison and Friends-’The Concert for Bangladesh’-1971. Raga: Bangla Dhun.

(Great for shoveling snow in the Pacific Northwest-12-13/14-2,021-Planet: Earth)

Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,

Now dark- now glittering- now reflecting gloom-

Now lending splendour, where from secret springs

The source of human thought its tribute brings

Of waters, - with a sound but half its own.”

Memories are not always about the past Visions are not always about the future Opinions are not always about the moment These ideas keep us from seeing a bigger picture The bigger picture isn’t always about the truth These ideas keep us from discovering a truth The truth isn’t always about reality These ideas keep us from creating reality Reality isn’t always about what we experience These ideas…

it is the duty of unimportant men to have nothing to disrupt them