There is always the middle way...
...if men’s hearts will open to it?
One ordinary Brit’s view, Autumn
2006
I want this site, arising from Pope Benedict
XVI’s recent comments and furore (September 2006),
to be easy and readable. Serious analyses and
heavyweight articles you will find published in
large numbers elsewhere.
This site offers ‘the words of Everyman’ as
reported and culled from a variety of sources. The
hope is that, grouped under different Headings they
may help reflect the daunting, confrontational
challenge facing societies today in West and East.
Can we ever really understand the mind and heart
of the fundamentalist activist ? How does twisted,
deluded violence come about, from whichever ‘side’?
(* see quotations throughout.)
Permanent solutions and peaceful co-existence
will be hard-earned under small moves. The
metaphysical, the spiritual direction is, for all,
the permanent and underlying connection with the
Divine.
The intent underlying this site is found in these
two excerpts.
“When a man dwells (in mind) on the
objects of sense, he creates an
attraction for them.
Attraction develops into desire. Desire
(thwarted) breeds anger. Anger induces
delusion.
Delusion leads to loss of memory.
Through loss of memory, reason is
shattered. And loss of reason leads to
destruction (his and others) |
The Geeta, 1935
translation
by W.B.
Yeats and Purohit Swami. |
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"The purpose is…..to hold the mirror
up to nature… and show…the very age and
body of the time’ and ‘ in the very
torrent, tempest, whirlwind of passion….
acquire a temperance’…. |
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Hamlet (précis-ed) Act 3 Sc 2 |
Bill Johnson
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