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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:33 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qlJAv6kp-A&feature=related > > > > > 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). > > > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
