Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Great Regulars: A serene death, "an undustful death"

is also suitable. Such a death would leave a body without bullet holes "in our shirts" and "no evidence in our ribs." The body would be whole and untouched, not maimed and battered as those who invite such atrocities in the name of their cause.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Barghouti's It's also Fine

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The speaker repeats his trinity, "Fair, kind, and true," a third time, as he remarks that ordinary use of these terms defines them separately, but in his cosmogony they create a new reality that until he had thought them into being has never combined to craft the one that he now sustains.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 105

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He then dramatically proclaims that after they vanish, they exist only "behind the cosmic screen." They do not cease to exist, however; they merely change "their displayed coats."

Instead of the physical world mayic drama of sight and sound, these once worldly presences become "quiet" for they are "concealed." But the important, uplifting thought that accompanies the spiritual reality of all phenomena is that they do not truly vanish; they "remain."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's "Vanishing Bubbles"

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