We each have to dig down into our ground of being. We start asking questions, shifting our stance. The tree is aware. Everything in existence radiates its Source. The fancie out-worke Nature. Commit to give your all. We sense there is a mystery at work we may not understand. sort form. “Whatever a thing IS — THAT is its meaning.” When I heard this from my teacher, “Doc” Hawkins, it stunned my mind. In the following passage, the author criticises the newspapers: For though it be natural enough for an orator who has precipitated himself from the heights of popularity and fair fame into an abyss of corruption and infamy, from which he can never―never emerge, to endeavour, like the first apostate, by lying, deceitful speeches to involve the innocent in suffering and disgrace―yet to represent one of a very different cast, a senator of unimpeached conduct, and unspotted principles, as adopting the ribaldry of ministerial hirelings, or the ravings of some frantic lordling, when speaking of those whose unremitting efforts have been to keep the empire back from the edge of that precipice to which the strong hands of administration were dragging it―. ” (1815), by the English poet, novelist and forger of Shakespearian documents and plays William Henry Ireland (1775-1835): From this you may guess I am not over wealthy; Rural Ride: From Chilworth, in Surrey, to Winchester, of 5th November 1825. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. The money they earned from taking care of my mother fed many children and grandchildren. In. Finally, we look in the mirror and ask: “Who am I? Which by penny’s worth I from the chandler’s shop bear, We become more open-minded, willing to consider new ways to approach life because suddenly the old framework isn’t working any more. The earliest occurrence of to beggar belief that I have found is from an anonymous pamphlet written on 25 th January 1780, Thoughts on News-papers and a Free Trade. As amorous of their strokes. Our existence is proof that the Source of Life wants us here – just as we are. We look at the ground we’re sitting on and wonder, “What if I dug a little deeper?”. It was apparently the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who first used the verb figuratively. Existence IS its meaning. He would say, for example, “Nothing causes anything.
The man insisted the beggar look inside…
and to his surprise he discovered an abundance of gold and treasure. Life is already intrinsically meaningful without our mental theories saying so.
I know you! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi means Whatever you show me like this, I hate and refuse to believe.). As for wine or strong spirits to make Fancy free, Learn how your comment data is processed. I’ve said once a week it perchance proves my lot Learn more, including how we use cookies and how you can change your settings. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion - cloth-of-gold of tissue-O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. The world is an interplay of circumstances that are interconnected and purposeful.