The Ocean That We Live on Has No Shore

November 14, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is philosophy by the numbers.

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A philosophical number poem about the difficulty of bearing the experience of infinity:

The ocean that we live on has no shore.

However far we sail, we reach no end.

Infinity is simply what we see,

Restoring the first meaning of "to be,"

There being only ocean, nothing more.

Yet that is what we cannot comprehend.

None long can bear that god-like ecstasy,

Imagining oneself at Being's core,

Nor long remove the multiplicity

Each mind within itself must apprehend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Philosophy by the Numbers

11/11: Solitude Is Never Yours Alone

11/12: Sing of the Sweet Sunlight of the Soul

11/13: Silence at the Center of the Soul

11/14: The Ocean That We Live on Has No Shore