Thursday, May 12, 2016
St. Augustine In love my God
But what do I love, when I love Thee?
not beauty of bodies, nor the fair harmony of time, nor the brightness of the light, so gladsome to our eyes, nor sweet melodies of varied songs, nor the fragrant smell of flowers, and ointments, and spices, not manna and honey, not limbs acceptable to embracements of flesh. None of these I love, when I love my God; and yet I love a kind of light, and melody, and fragrance, and meat, and embracement when I love my God, the light, melody, fragrance, meat, embracement of my inner man: where there shineth unto my soul what space cannot contain, and there soundeth what time beareth not away, and there smelleth what breathing disperseth not, and there tasteth what eating diminisheth not, and there clingeth what satiety divorceth not.This is it which I love when I love my God.
Confessions of St. Augustine
Saint Paul Hymn to Love
I speak in
the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to
be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.Love is
patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love
does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not
rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes
all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never
ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our
prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass
away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I
reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we
see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall
understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love
abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (I Corinthians 13)
Saint Paul’s Hymn to Love
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Empedocles
(Wiki)
'For before now I have been at some time boy and girl, bush, bird, and a mute fish in the sea' (fr. B 117)
Empedocles (encyclopedia of philosophy)
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