Category Archives: Orpheus

The ultimate teaching

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Michaela

    In Ultimate Truth there are no Buddhas and no demons; One enters here the Realm where Dharma is exhausted. Among all Vehicles, this ultimate teaching Is found only in the Tantras. It says in the Highest Division of … Continue reading →

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Moving into the unknown

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Michaela

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which … Continue reading →

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Before sunrise

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Michaela

To me no piece of music expresses this particular time we live in better than this one… L.v. Beethoven; Leonara No 3

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The pulse of life

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Michaela

RHYTHM – listening to god moving. The gift of Orpheus From: “How Music Works” – with Howard Goodall

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The creative mind

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Michaela

Maurice Sendak on seeing things differently

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The poet speaks an universal language

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Michaela

The poet speaks an universal languagePoetry is greater than history We have become shameless in a response to being so ashamed about our tendency to deny truth. And if the poet speaks, he impacts the truth because he speaks from … Continue reading →

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The pressure of God’s infinite

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Michaela

Listening to Orpheus (19) Words are meant to speak the truth. That is what words are for. And this is what the poet does – he speaks the truth. Hamza Yussuf on “What happened to poetry ?” (3/5)

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They don’t know what words are…

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Michaela

Listening to Orpheus (18) What happened to poetry ? A lecture on poetry with Hamza Yussuf (2/5)

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What happened to poetry ?

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Michaela

Listening to Orpheus (17) (A word to the effect of counting. I don’ have a system. Some of the postings in this category I consider auxiliary in terms of developing the theme and so they don’t get a number. Others … Continue reading →

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You are lonely my friend…

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Michaela

You are lonely, my friend, because you are…. We, with a word or a finger-sign, gradually make the world our own , though perhaps its weakest, most precarious part. How can fingers point out a smell?– Yet of the dark … Continue reading →

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