Michael, Do you have a complaint with this particular essay? And I agree with Mr. Pirsig about doing well. I believe posters on this forum would all like to do well, and better.
Marsha > On Nov 30, 2013, at 11:38 AM, "Michael R. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > > My only problem with the American Transcendentalists is leaving behind this > world. > > Mr. D. H. Lawrence puts it into the mouth of his Jesus, who survives the > Cross and rethinks his mission, and repents a bit, and in the end thinks: > "From what, and to what, could this infinite whirl be saved?" > > Mr. Pirsig doesn't seem to worry too much about saving. He just wants us to > do well. You can kind of tell these things. > > > MRB > >> On 11/30/2013 2:37 AM, MarshaV wrote: >> Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellect >> >> >> "Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best >> deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous >> glance shall bring you, whilst you rise from your bed, or walk abroad in the >> morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night. Our >> thinking is a pious reception. Our truth of thought is therefore vitiated as >> much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence. >> We do not determine what we will think. We only open our senses, clear away, >> as we can, all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see. >> We have little control over our thoughts. We are the prisoners of ideas. >> They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that >> we take no thought for the morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to >> make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture, bethink us where >> we have been, what we have seen, and repeat, as truly as we can, what we >> have behel d > . >> As far as we can recall these ecstasies, we carry away in the ineffaceable >> memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called >> Truth. But the moment we cease to report, and attempt to correct and >> contrive, it is not truth." >> >> >> >> http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_36Y4mG_CI >> >> >> >> 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 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
