'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.




Friday, May 21, 2010

on certainty 471

471. It is so difficult to find the beginning. Or, better: it is difficult to begin at the beginning. And not to try to go back further.



there is no beginning

and there is no beginning to begin at –

we act –

be that with –

thought word or deed –

in the unknown


© greg t. charlton. 2010.