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30 July, 2010 The following is an extract from a speech given by the Nigerian writer Ben Okri – on 15th April 2003. “In Iraq, the need of the Americans to protect oil fields, but not hospitals, museums and libraries, is a catastrophic failure of imagination and a signal absence of a sense of the true values of civilisation. The end of the world begins not with the barbarians at the gate, but with the barbarians at the highest levels of the state. All the states in the world. The real war always has been to keep alive the light of civilisation everywhere; to keep culture and art at the forefront of our national and international endeavours.” The full speech is at http://www.senscot.net/view_art.php?viewid=9816 That&r - Read full bulletin 23 July, 2010 “The world of books is the most remarkable creation of humankind. Nothing else that we build ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling our hearts of the hearts of others centuries dead.” Clarence S Day (US writer) “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.” Ernest Hemingway That&r - Read full bulletin 16 July, 2010 Great Sporting Moments by Alan Jenkins. “A brace of goals that I was meant to score, aged ten – how else can I explain them? Taken on the run or on the turn, from outside the eighteen-yard box. The last-minute try that means we have won – my first game for the big school’s first fifteen… The catch I take so deep in the outfield is almost knocks me backwards over the boundary. Last man out. End of match… How reliable these moments are that I replay endlessly! But all the same it shocks me, to think that I was once that little star, so lean and taut and primed – the boy who mocks me; how brief the main event, through which I must have slept. That&r - Read full bulletin 09 July, 2010 'Loving is Eternal Innocence' by Alberto Caeiro. ''I believe in the world like I believe in a marigold, because I see it. But I don't think about it - because to think is not to understand...... The world was not made for us to think about - but for us to look at and agree with ..... I don't have a philosophy: I have senses.... If I talk about Nature, it's not because I know what it is, but because I love it - and the reason I love it is because when you love you never know what you love, or why you love, or what loving is.... Loving is eternal innocence, and the only innocence is not thinking.......'' - Read full bulletin 02 July, 2010 From ''The Miracle of Mindfulness'' by Thich Nhat Hanh. ''People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” - Read full bulletin See all previous bulletin end bits here |
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