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Spokenwrd

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Spokenwrd features outstanding and inspiring examples of poetry and literature.

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Neal Stephenson on the Dress of Sir Winston

March 19, 2008 22:13 - 2.1 MB

p. 175 “Sir Winston was of Raleigh’s generation and had fought in the Civil War as a Cavalier — he was a serious man and so was dressed in a way that passed for dignified and understated here, in a black velvet coat, flaring out to just above the knee, with lace handkerchiefs trailing from […]

John Cage on Enlightenment, Control, Indeterminacy, & Consciousness

March 12, 2008 21:10

p. 6 “A young man in Japan arranged his circumstances so that he was able to travel to a distant island to study Zen with a certain Master for a three-year period. At the end of the three years, feeling no sense of accomplishment, he presented himself to the Master and announced his departure. The […]

John Cage on Enlightenment, Control, Indeterminacy, & Why

March 12, 2008 21:10

p. 6 “A young man in Japan arranged his circumstances so that he was able to travel to a distant island to study Zen with a certain Master for a three-year period. At the end of the three years, feeling no sense of accomplishment, he presented himself to the Master and announced his departure. The […]

Matthieu Ricard on Life, Faults, Pleasures, & Consciousness

February 12, 2008 00:18

p. 28 “May every moment in my life and the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!” p. 38 “We are very much like birds that have lived too long in a cage to which we return even when we get the chance to fly away. We have grown so accustomed […]

M. C. Richards on Persons, Will, & Freedom

February 09, 2008 20:40 - 1.98 MB

p. 19 “And so it is with persons. You can do very many things with us: push us together and pull us apart and squeeze us and roll us flat, empty us out and fill us up. You can surround us with influences, but there comes a point when you can do no more. The […]