Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Via JMG: xkcd On Same-Sex Marriage


 
Details.(Tipped by JMG reader Bruce)


Reposted from  Joe Jervis

God Only Knows - BBC Music


Flower of the Day: 10/08/14

"Divine justice makes use of human injustice to bring about the ultimate justice. The human mind, although it is a great power, has its limitations. One of the aspects of the mind is memory, but human memory is flawed. We send out an invitation and forget we sent it, so that when the guests arrive we don’t think we invited them. This limitation prevents us from noticing the relationship between cause and effect. But there is no effect without a cause."
 
Sri Prem Baba

The Presence of Beauty | October 8, 2014

Thomas Aquinas said that beauty arrests motion. He meant, I think, that in the presence of something gorgeous or sublime, we stop our nervous natterings, our foot twitchings and restless tongues. Whatever that fretful hunger is, it seems momentarily filled in the presence of beauty. 
 
- Barbara Hurd, "On Silence"