Monday, March 28, 2022

The Light of Repentance

 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me!

Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression (Psalm 19:13).

Saturday, March 26, 2022

Monday, March 21, 2022

Anosognosia

 From Greek origin meaning "without knowledge of the disease." You may also hear it called "lack of insight." What it boils down to is that the person is unaware of their condition and unable to accept it.
This is not a stubborn attitude or driven from denial. It is the brain being incapable of processing the fact that their thoughts and moods don’t reflect reality. Accompanied with confabulation (generation of fabricated stories that the patient believes to be true), and blindness are suggestive of damage to occipital lobes of the brain.

Monday, March 14, 2022

خامش

ما سمیعیم و بصیریم و خوشیم
  با شما نامحرمان ما خامشیم


Sunday, March 6, 2022

MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS

 About suffering they were never wrong,

The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.


W.H. Auden