The Bhagavad-Gita

reading this text it is even more epiphanic then woolf.... every page has a new , deeper meaning of what life is and what life has to offer... again i feel that i cant really explain what each part of the sttory means but i know what parts of the text that move me and i really enjoy. again i have to say that i feel blessed to read another piece of literature that moves me in a way that i didnt think possible.

'Sensous objuects fade
when the embodied self abtains from food,
the taste lingers, but it too fades
in the vision of higher truth.'

'Delights from external objects
are wombs of suffering;
in their beginning is their end,
and no wise man delights in them.'

'doomed by his double failure,
is he not like a cloud split apart,
unsettled, deluded on the path
of the infinite spirit?'

'I will teach the deepest nystery
to you since you find no fault;
realizing it with knowledge ad judgement,
you will be free from misfourtune.'

'Do not tremble
or suffer confusion
from seeing
my horrific form;
your fear dispelled,
your mind full of love,
see my form again
as it was.'

'know that passion is emotional,
as the delusion of every embodied self;
it binds one with negligence,
indolence, and sleep. Arjuna.'

'From lucidity knowledge is born;
from passion comes greed;
from dark inertia come negligence,
delusion, and ignorance.'

To the Lighthouse

5 moments of endless Epiphanies in the text :

1. ' that was of littel acocunt to her. if her husbadn required sacrifices (and indeed he did) she cheerfully offered up to him chalres tansley, who had snubbed her little boy.' pg 16

2. 'but this is what i see; this is what i see,' and so to clasp some miserable remnant of her vision to her breast, which a thousand forces did their best to luack form her.'

3. '.... on the plale semicircular beach, wave after wave shedding again and again smoothly, a film of mother of pearl.'

4. ' she could have wpet. it was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! she could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded...'

5. 'But it had been seen; it had been taken from her. This man had shared with her something profoundly intimate.'

i just opened my book to 5 different pages and found moments of epiphany. i dont feel that i can really even comment on each line, because well... i just dont think that i am even close to being at woolfs level of one, writing, and two her understanding of all that writes about..... when reading through the lighthouse, i feel that all woolf says is an epiphanic moment.... throughout the entire novel one is able to open up another part of the character and you dont even realize that you are getting into that characters head ass much as you are as a reader..

Henry James

'An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. '

'Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. '

'Deep experience is never peaceful'

'I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.'

again i feel that we are able to read another poet, or writer that has such insightful moments of clarity for readers. when sexson asked us to google james, i couldnt remember if i had ever read him... and now looking back i am sure that at some point in the past few years i have read him, but whenever i did and whatever it was that i read didnt seem to apply to me at the moment because i really dont remember ever reading him.... then that got me thinking... how many things have i read through the years that i just read and let it pass by. of course there are texts that i have read through the years of the english department... but i know i dont remember all of them. is that due to me not liking the text or... is it because at that moment in my life when i was reading something i didnt fully connect to it therefore i didnt let it enter my mind and really take something away from it. this is slightly an epiphany for me because i have always though of my self as a connected reader. one who takes away from each text and really reaches some different or new understanding in life or whatever after reading a text... how many times have a i read something in the past few years and not picked up on something. was i not ready if i let James pass me by? at the point when i read him.. and i know i did know taht i am writing about it ! was i just so blind to HIS hidden music in the text that i wasnt able to see it or pick up on whatever was written..... this makes me a little sad... i need to become a more 'connected' reader again....

HAMLET

Hamlet.... well i have read hamlet... hmm 3 times in the past year and a half.... so pretty much every semester for the last year and a half i have read it. not that i dont enjoy hamelt... but its taken me a while to pick it up again and read it again....

i am taking a Harold Bloom class this semester and constantly Bloom speaks of Shakespeare as not only being the center of the western canon, but also the single most greatest writer of all time. not that he uses those words but he might as well because that is what he comes across as saying... not that i dont agree with him at all, and in fact when he writes about Hamlet i completely agree. When reading Hamlet, even when he at times seems to be annoying or just plain being a baby, i think that anyone can really connect to him and really be able to understand what him on a level that no on e int the play can.

i think that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet for the audience... for the audience to really connect to him because he doesnt have anyone else that understands him in his life. now i feel like i am talking like bloom... but one thing for sure... like reading hamlet again or not, there is a sense of connection to the character everytime i read it. i dont find myself a very melancholy person but what i do find is that through his melancholy and at times in my melancholy moments there is room for epiphanies to happen. in silence and 'aloneness' and in deep thought that only one can reach in a moment pf melancholy i think is where some of the greatest epiphanies can come from.