Sacrosanct

The flotsam and jetsam in Saturday’s mailbox was a curious mix . . .

Yesterday, in 1968, country musician Johnny Cash recorded a live concert at Folsom Prison in California.

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." – Johnny Cash

...whatever progress you make will be painfully slow: nobody will come up with an algorithm to produce social justice. – Garrison_Keillor

“. . . culture, when it loses its sense of the sacred, loses all sense.” – Leszek Kołakowski

The theory of quanta favors a shift from the belittling of the human as an insignificant speck in the immensity of galaxies to one as the main actor in the universal drama — which is a vision proper to every religion – restoring the mind to its role as co-creator of the fabric of reality. – Czesław Miłosz For more wrangling with what may or may not be sacrosanct, see “Pope Benedict’s Challenge” in the current issue of Noema

To attribute characteristics to The Watercourse Way is problematic in that one has to resort to language to do so and that insodoing such attribution cannot embrace that which is beyond language – the essential source of The Way itself. That said, Kolakowski's “sacred” has as much a presence in The Way as its embrace of that which lies beyond it. As noted elsewhere in these briefs, the guiding principle created by The Way is just that: creativity, another word for which is love, and its implied sacred nature.