क्लेस
In a marvelously unified and dynamic composition expressing the rhythm and harmony of life, Nataraj is shown with four hands representing the cardinal directions. He is dancing, with his left foot elegantly raised and the right foot on a prostrate figure — 'Apasmara Purusha', the personification of illusion and ignorance over whom Shiva triumphs. The upper left hand holds a flame, the lower left hand points down to the dwarf, who is shown holding a cobra. The upper right hand holds an hourglass drum or 'dumroo' that stands for the male-female vital principle, the lower shows the gesture of assertion: "Be without fear."
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called
'Ego'.
— Friedrich
Nietzsche
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and
repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human
existence.
— William
Blake
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
— Epicurus
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself
wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows
whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear
it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
―
Socrates
Reading for Week 3
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