Author Archives: Empath

Today’s Selection of Ruskin

I have hardly kept my promise. The reader has decorated but little for himself as yet; but I have not, at least, attempted to bias his judgment. Of the simple forms of decoration which have been set before him, he has always been left free to choose; and the stated restrictions in the methods ofContinue reading “Today’s Selection of Ruskin”

Today’s Selection of Ruskin

For, clearly, as the sculptor of the concave profile must leave masses of rough stone prepared for his outer ornament, and cannot finish them at once, but must complete the cutting of the smooth bell beneath first, and then return to the projecting masses (for if he were to finish these latter first, they wouldContinue reading “Today’s Selection of Ruskin”

Things that Aren’t Real (Unfinished?)

These are some things that often, but not always, are “Real” or “True” from the perspective of “Relative Truth” but they lack “Reality” from the perspective of “Absolute Truth”. The definitions of these two particular terms, “Absolute Truth” and “Relative Truth”, are being borrowed here, by me, from the Buddhist concept of The Two Truths.Continue reading “Things that Aren’t Real (Unfinished?)”