When we get to the point where we can enjoy a Literature Prize or Math Prize or Music Prize as much as an Art Prize (which is a good thing, BTW), we will have arrived someplace special where we also find that along the way we’ve solved war and hunger and homelessness and other painful unnecessary things.
You can’t reveal the sublime without enduring the wretched.
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Is it true? Is it kind? Is it helpful?
I just learned of this:
The Three Sieves of Socrates >
Plato is often called the “most Christian” pre-Christian philosopher. I had to rethink that upon discovering this wonderful advice from Socrates. But Plato was of course Socrates’ student. If I’m going to extend the analogy, I guess that casts Socrates in the role of John the Baptist.
(Relax. It’s an analogy.)
[2013-09-17]
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