SamadhiMuse

         What fire burns me that
            I can't quench the flame?
         Would, that I could, seek the cause
            but passion's flames rage too high
         near that center of my thought
            and drive me spinning dizzy from them
               again and again.
         In this cycle of trying and wanting
            spritualism, materialism, realism, humanism,
         relative, absolute, unity, becoming
            are each some truth but no answer
               each is a way, all a paradox.
                              gallagher
                              27 November 1973

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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      Religion is just the explanation we use to defend ourselves
      against the possibility that everything could be, without reason.

      Our explanations grow more complex as we analyze our experience
      more deeply so that asymptotically our explanations better
      and better approximate the reality we seek to know.

      At the limit, the explanation's complexity equals the thing
      explained and we see unity through complexity come full circle.

      The ultimate questions of physical process and life's reason
      simply reflect each other as Yin and Yang; they cannot stand apart
      to be answered and we cannot leave their domain for perspective.

                                 early Jan 75
                                 CSULB - Lipsky's class
                                 Gallagher

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —