this life resounds magnificent ... here's some more from Mr. Joseph Campbell ...

"When we talk about scientific truth -- just as when we talk about God -- we are in trouble, because truth has different meanings. William James said, and it's valid, 'Truth is what works.'

The idea of Truth with a capital "T" -- that there is something called Truth that's beyond the range of the relativity of the human mind trying to think -- is what I call 'the error of the found truth.' The trouble with all of these damned preachers is the error of the found truth. When they get that tremolo in the voice and tell you what God has said, you know you've got a faker. When people think that they, or their guru, have The Truth -- "This is It!" -- they are what Nietzsche calls 'epileptics of the concept': people who have gotten an idea that's driven them crazy.

Thinking you've got The Truth is a form of madness, as are pronouncements about absolute beauty, because one can easily see that there is no such thing. Beauty is always relevant to something. That quote from Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn -- 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.' -- it is a nice poetic thought, but what does it mean? Speaking of platitudes, I like Robert Bly's extrapolation of Descartes: 'I think, therefore I am. The stone doesn't think, therefore it isn't.'

Ideals are dangerous.
Don't take them seriously.
You can get by on a few."

PEACE folks.

love,

jaggedbite.