Dear Learners
"Whenever we stir, the two resources which are the fairest of all attend
us; Nature, which is the universal, and virtue, which is our own. Such was
the design, believe me, of whatever force fashioned the universe, whether
an omnipotent god, or impersonal Reason as artificer of vast creations, or
divine Spirit permeating all things great and small with uniform tension,
or Fate with its immutable nexus of interrelated causes…. This world,
than which Nature has wrought nothing greater or handsomer, and the human
mind, its most magnificent portion, which contemplates the world and
admires it, are our own forever."
- Marcus Anneaus Seneca (Quoted in Anthony Blunt's "Poussin and Stoicism")
Those all among all communities with eyes to see and ears to hear might
wish for that thing called, blindly, 'vision'. From the ancient Greek
cities of democracy both to speak and to act were foundational. Emerson
said of Thoreau that he had 'no vision'. Emerson called him, 'a speaker and
actor of truth.' Each day Emerson said Thoreau's "-eyes and ears were empty
to see and hear the world he lived in." Thoreau it was heard said;-) "
Music is continuous; only listening is intermittent."
(From, Notes: Lecture on the Weather, by the American artist John Cage '73
- '78)
Love,
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