Wenn der Staub nicht der eindeutige Beweis für eine Levitation ist, dann weiß ich auch nicht…

“Much, much more important, though, Seymour had already begun to believe (and I agreed with him, as far as I was able to see the point) that education by any name would smell as sweet, and maybe much sweeter, if it didn’t begin with a quest for knowledge at all but with a quest, as Zen would put it, for no-knowledge. Dr. Suzuki says somewhere that to be in a state of pure consciousness- satori- is to be with God before he said, Let there be light.”

J.D. Salinger, „Franny and Zooey“

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enthält ein Shakespeare-Zitat:

„What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet“

Shakespeare, „Romeo and Juliet“

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überraschend natürlich –“Paradox“ quasi ein Synonym für „Buddhismus“:

„Dr. Suzuki says somewhere that to be in a state of pure consciousness- satori- is to be with God before he said, Let there be light.”

„Franny“ ist wie ihre Geschwister ein „Wunderkind“ und tritt in der Radio-Quiz-Show „It’s a Wise Child“ auf –“did you hear her last week?“ – im Radio:

“Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant – if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely DREAMT that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she KNEW she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”

J.D. Salinger, „Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters“ and „Seymour: An Introduction“

wikipedia beschreibt das Buch – zutreffend – so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_High_the_Roof_Beam,_Carpenters_and_Seymour:_An_Introduction

„(…) This story, like others concerning the Glass family, touches upon „Zen Buddhism“, „haiku“, and the Hindu philosophy of „Vedanta“ (…)“

Sehr gute Neu-Übersetzung „Hebt an den Dachbalken, Zimmerleute“ von „Eike Schönfeld“ bei Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Apropos „Tankstelle“ – hier mein „Esoterik-Quiz“:

Im Februar 2016 schrieb ich in einer e-mail an Christian Clement – um den und seine „Steiner kritische Ausgabe“ gerade bei wikipedia eine Schlacht tobt –, Zitat Andreas Lichte:

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„apropos ‘niveauvoll’:

was für ein Auto fahren Sie?

ich tippe auf einen ‘Bulwer-Lytton’ mit innovativem ‘Vril-Antrieb’, der über den Boden schwebt“

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Auf welches Buch Rudolf Steiners spielt meine e-mail an?

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