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Monthly Archive for May, 2009

Authenticity & Appetite

Conversation between Dunya & Kate Temple-West:
Kate: I came across this from philosopher Charles Taylor:
“If authenticity is being true to ourselves, is recovering our own ’sentiment de l’existence’, then perhaps we can only achieve it integrally if we recognize that this sentiment connects us to a wider whole.  It was perhaps not an accident that in [...]

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Nafs (Ammara)

Writing on Gold Paper
byDDMcPherson
I exhale and cast forward, over a brink.
My body hurtling down and down,
but the inner world halts,
curling its tongue over the desert of Earth.
Eyesight travels in straight lines; insight curves without ever traveling,
a globe swallowed into the heart.
Inhaling, exhaling stretches the canvas of air
where a painting appears and dissolves continuously,
as breath fogs [...]

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