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Dante's Inferno -the last Canto
It is interesting the way Dante finally exits Hell-the Inferno You think of the Inferno has being very hot but apparently at the bottom...
davidsmith208
Aug 1, 20171 min read
The Long Dark Night of the Soul
The long dark night of the soul Is coming to an end And I am moving to Chicago I arise at 3am and begin My accent up the 4000 footer At...
davidsmith208
Jul 24, 20171 min read
A Man Prepared is a Man hurt by Delay
In Dante's Inferno Canto 27, the Roman Tribune Curio is referred to by Dante in: "This outcast settled Caesar's doubts that day beside...
davidsmith208
Jul 22, 20171 min read
The Best Meditation Chair
As a rule chairs aren't that good for meditation. The classic full lotus position on a Zabuton is probably the best arrangement for...
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Jul 17, 20171 min read
Watching the News
To the mind there is such a thing as news, whereas to the inner knowing, it is all in the middle of it's happening." - Maulana Rumi (...
davidsmith208
Jul 16, 20171 min read
Piano Player at the White House-Greenwich-Northway
Northway" or Petit Trianon Deux is a scaled down nearly identical copy of the original from Versailles. After receiving permission from...
davidsmith208
Jul 16, 20172 min read
A Stroll down Orchard Street, NYC
Apparently Orchard street Lower East Side (LES) once was an orchard. But nowadays it seems the thing growing there is Art Galleries. So...
davidsmith208
Jul 8, 20171 min read
Nirvana literally means cooling off
Meditation According to Karen Armstrong page 33, A History of God. The Guru Granth Sahib (GGS) talks a lot about "my mind (man) and Body...
davidsmith208
Jul 6, 20171 min read
As Curator and Conneisseur
I am recommending the Art of Hariclia Michailidou at Artifact Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC The Exhibition is on the Poetics of Space and...
davidsmith208
Jul 6, 20171 min read
Splendour in the grass
Wordsworth's Great Ode It is split into three movements: the first four stanzas discuss death, and the loss of youth and innocence; the...
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Jul 2, 20176 min read
Restlessness - The Pulley
The Pulley By George Herbert When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, “Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we...
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Jul 1, 20171 min read
The Ecstasy by John Donne
The Ecstasy By John Donne Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we two, one...
davidsmith208
Jul 1, 20177 min read
Why Greece & Turkey have the same basic DNA.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Dominant-Y-DNA-haplogroup-J2-for-both-Greece-and-Turkey-How-did-this-happen-Are-the-Levant-or-Israel-in-...
davidsmith208
Jul 1, 20174 min read
raison d’être
If one was to look at Shabda Wikipedia Shabda wikipedia It says that in Sant Mat the raison d’être for the human form is to meditate on...
davidsmith208
Jul 1, 20172 min read
My swaption model referenced on Bloomberg
There was a time when my Black Commodity model version of swaption pricing was used on Bloomberg but "applied liberally" as they said. It...
davidsmith208
Jul 1, 20171 min read
Dante's little boat
In a number of places the image of the skiff comes up as one travels the heavens: In Dante's Divine Comedy In Tiger's Fang In Greek...
davidsmith208
Jun 30, 20172 min read
Unknown Saint: Nabha
Nabha Das Link to Unknown Saints: flipboard
davidsmith208
Jun 30, 20171 min read
The Poetics of Space -the Art Exhibition of Hariclia Michailidou July 12-30 New York
The Poetics of Space The reception is July 12 at 6pm to 8pm At Artifact Gallery 84 Orchard Street NYC Artifact Gallery Artifact Gallery...
davidsmith208
Jun 28, 20171 min read
The Slow Learner by David Smith
The Slow Learner After 41 years or 15,000 days He finally learned that: To think of the past was to be on the material plane, To think...
davidsmith208
Jun 27, 20172 min read
T.S. Eliot is said to have revived the Metaphysical Poets
Song T. S. Eliot, 1888 - 1965 If space and time, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The fly that lives a single day Has lived as...
davidsmith208
Jun 27, 20171 min read
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