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U plavu Zoru (In the blue dawn)

One of Pink Martini's soulful music. U plavu Zoru is Croatian for In the blue dawn. highly recommend listening to it.



Tiha noc Silent night
Sjene su u bijegu The shadows are on the run
Ja cujem zvuk I hear a sound
Sta blize zove me That's calling me nearer

U plavu zoru In the blue dawn
Sa svjetlom tu With the light here
Na moja vrata On my door
Ti stizes You arrive
Naci ces You will find
Praznu postelju moju My empty bed
Dok vlak nosi While a train carries
Me daleko Me far away

posted by A pedestrian @ 10:12 PM 0 comments

Monalisa

one of my favorite quotes. Everytime I read it and I've read it several times, i think this is the answer to any question anyone can have about anything. Its like the monalisa of quotations by Mr.Nelson Mandela

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be these things? You are a child of God! Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people around you won't feel insecure. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to manifest the glory of God within us; it is in everyone. And, as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically releases others." .........sigh

posted by A pedestrian @ 2:52 AM 0 comments

what reason is or not

Reason, for the philosophe, (the enlightened thinker, philosopher, the rational) , what grace is for the Christian.
It is grace which impels the Christians to act;it is reason which impels the philosophe.

Other men are swept along by their passions without reflecting before they take action: they are men who walk in darkness; on the other hand the philosophe, even in his passions, acts only after reflecting; he is walking at night, but there is a torch in front of him.

The philosophe bases his principles on an infinite number of particular observations. The people adopt the priniciple without thinking about the observation which have led to do it: they think the maxim exists as it were on its own, but the philosophe goes back to the sources of the maxim; he examines its origins, he knows its true value, and uses as much of it as suits him.

....For the philosophe truth is not a mistress who corrupts his imagination and which he believes he can find everywhere; he limits himself to being able to distinguish it when he can percieve it. He does not confuse it with probability; he takes as true what is true, as false what is false, as doubtful what is doubtful and as probable what is only probable. He does more, in that a great strength of the philosophe is that, when he has no reason to judge, he can suspend judgement.

-Anon, "Philosophe", in the Encyclopedie 1765 (translated version)

posted by A pedestrian @ 10:36 PM 0 comments