Comments for Flickering Lamp

Comment on Notes by mm

mm — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:07:38 +0000

(o)

Comment on Notes by mm

mm — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:07:01 +0000

.Yes

Comment on Love and freedom by And just before the day is out, some valentine’s links

And just before the day is out, some valentine’s links — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:57:43 +0000

[…] swiftly on, how about love as slavery… K at Flickering Lamp has an excerpt on The Way to Love: People have become so much a part of your being that you cannot even imagine living a life that is […]

Comment on Love and freedom by rr

rr — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:35:02 +0000

Thank you.

This is what I struggle with, the chimera of the hope of extrinsic “salvation” or “completion” in the shape of another. It would, as Anthony de Mello points out, probably be nothing of the sort.

Comment on Morning verses by Anne-Mieke

Anne-Mieke — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:23:13 +0000

Ah, here you are

Comment on A poem by Adam Zagajewski by rr

rr — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:38:51 +0000

Lovely to see you here, a flame, high, white

Comment on Attention by alan

alan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:40:36 +0000

but i think one could also argue that without selective interest, experience would be absolute order…

Comment on Each day by tatz

tatz — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:41:11 +0000

Thank you. I needed to hear that.

Comment on Lines from Jane Hirshfield’s “To Opinion” by Mar7k

Mar7k — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:45:17 +0000

Thanks Kurt, I had not heard of Jane Hirshfield before. I looked her up, and found another great poem “It was like this: you were happy”. These are fantastic poetry.

Comment on Constancy by Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:44:36 +0000

Wonderful passage, Kurt. Thank you.

I am reminded, reading this, of the Baal Shem Tov’s teachings on equanimity, which I blogged a while back.