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On Jul 28, 2011, at 11:58 AM, John Carl wrote:
> Back home! Amongst my family, home and books. I read a passage (from
> Royce's The Rediscovery of the Inner Life) this morning that very much made
> me think of Marsha. (parenthetitcal comments my own MoQ interpretation)
>
>
> Every true lover has in the beginning of his love grave doubts of his
> beloved's affection for him. And such doubts often take on bitter and even
> cynical forms in his soul in the various bad quarters of an hour that fall
> to his lot. Doubt, however, is not the foe, but the very inspirer of his
> love. It means that the beloved is yet to be won. It means that the simple
> warmth of his aspiration isn't enough, and that, if the beloved is worth
> winning, she is worth wooing through doubt and uncertainty for a good
> while. Moreover, it is not the fashion of the beloved to be especially
> forward in quelling such doubts, by making clear her attitude too soon. If
> it were, love-making might be a simple affair, but would not be so
> significant an experience as it is.
>
>
> Doubt is the cloud that is needed as a background for love's rainbow.
>
>
> Even so in the world of abstract thought. The more serious faiths of
> humanity can only be won, if at all, by virtue of much doubting. The divine
> truth (DQ) is essentially coy. You woo her, you toil for her, you reflect
> upon her by night and by day, you search through books, study nature, make
> experiments, dissect brains, hold learned disputations, take counsel o the
> wise; in fine, your prepare your own ripest thought, and lay it before your
> heavenly mistress when you have done your best. Will she be pleased? Will
> she reward you with a glance of approval? Will she say, Thou has well
> spoken concerning me?
>
>
> Who can tell? Her eyes have their own beautiful fashion of looking far off
> when you want them to be turned upon you; and, after all, perhaps she
> prefers other suitors for her favor. The knowledge that she is of
> sufficiently exalted dignity to be indifferent to you, if she chooses, is
> what constitutes the mood known as philosophical skepticism. It is not
> then, a deadening and weakening mood; it is the very soul of philosophical
> earnestness (caring).
>
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