Aphorisms

Aphorisms By Warren Gaston

Aphorism #33

I want to outlive the need for accomplishment and let the Being of the world accomplish me. ______________________________________________________________ accomplish: L. complete, finish, fill up, plenty

Still

"Teach us to sit still." T. S. Eliot Ash Wednesday The best knowledge I have leads me to what I do not know but can learn. Beyond what I have learned to know, is an eruption of astonishing wonder which can be felt in the heart, but not known or understood in the mind....

The Narcissist

When looking in a mirror, a narcissist does not notice the shadow looking back.    

A Prayer for Guidance

Lord, give us the wisdom to abhor what is wrongfully held to be right, and the courage to denounce what is rightly held to be wrong.    .

Aphorism #101

Music is created from the conjugal relationship between mathematics and emotion.

Bare Wires

Poetry is the result of stripping insulation from the live wires of words. (5/7/08)    

Reflections

How does a mirror look at itself? In a mirror, of course, the same as you and me. But what does a mirror see when seeing itself in a mirror? A mirror image . . . only infinite. (4/6/08)