Reach for it

davidsmith208
Feb 28, 2019
1 min read

Poem:

When the coveted Sublime is actually within reach - you should reach for it. This is done by a process that is way beyond Descartes and Sartre. It turns out Plato was right and we just never read him right. After-all he was a Pythagorean. We now know his withdrawal from the senses may have been more like Patanjali. A Poem of David Smith February 28, 2019

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