There is altogether too much
There is altogether too much
the saints are not saintly because they have deprived themselves
On the contrary
They are saints because they are high
Well done, saints!
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Distance
Weil says imagination gets in the way
What a good conversation we had about this
And oh God
the second entry into language
I do not like Hegelians
But I think their owl is real, and beautiful
But probably
Their defensiveness
And ours
You talk about immanence and transcendence with the priest
You tell him Spinoza’s joke about if triangles had a God it would be a triangle
And he says well yes actually we do anthropomorphise too much
But the Holy Ghost or the Spirit is the passage of love between father and son
and it is what makes the difference between difference 1 and difference 2
and if everything were the same there would not be a father and a son
and the spirit is another word for expression
or
And someone asks does a part of you like it when someone is obsessed with you
And you say do you think if I could live the last five years over again I would with all these people attached, do you think I would prefer it if they were not
And everybody has a choice
At least about necessity
Hating someone you don’t know is cleaner than hating someone you do
But both are sad passions