Friday, October 12, 2012

shelves of words

Over the last few days I have been compiling a database of books that I have read. There are more than a thousand on my bookshelves and they cover more than twenty main topics. There is a mood associated with the project. It verges on the pleasant.

Memories are stirred of times past when I was excited by ideas that were new to me. They swept me off my geo-historical and happenstantial feet; they pointed to alternatives beyond xenophobic parochiality; they oozed vague promises of better ways to be human; they cracked norms and provoked a paradigm shift.

And all this was managed using words. Many remarkable people from a wide range of times and places have realised the impotence of words but presented some anyway. The paradigm shift results in pioneers climbing the spiritual mountain; and the lead climbers feel obliged to utter words to help others elevate themselves and experience the grander and more beatific world view.

The compilation and the climb continue!

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