commencement address 2013

 






“We should judge teaching not
by the amount of knowledge it passes on,
 but by the enduring excitement it generates.
 Knowledge, when it comes, is a later arrival,
flaring up, when the time is right,
from the sparks good teachers have implanted
in their students’ souls.”





                            Gary Gutting











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rhyme of the day

                           






                                

                               yesterday,  upon the stair
                               i met a man who wasn't there
                                he wasn't there again today
                                 i wish,  i wish he'd go away



       







maybe i should start something new

























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metaphysics is endemic

"In an age of change and uncertainty,

people ask profound questions,

about life itself, about suffering,

about death, about love and what makes life worthwhile.

 People seek assurance and light. 

They respond if they are presented with a unifying reality

which is in every way good, true and beautiful. ...

Without question there is a yearning

for unity among peoples,

 a rejection of whatever discriminates

or marginalizes others."

                                          -- Cardinal Basil Hume, A Turning to God














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