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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Archive for April 30th, 2006

Duma

Sunday, April 30th, 2006 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage | 3 Comments »

I saw two good movies last weekend. One was Duma, a coming-of-age story about Xan, a white farm boy in South Africa during the apartheid era, who must let go of his nearly-full-grown pet cheetah, Duma. He runs away from ...

Naked in Ashes

Sunday, April 30th, 2006 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | 5 Comments »

Another good film shown at the Naro last weekend was Naked in Ashes, Paula Fouce's documentary on the sadhus (holy men) of India, and their extreme aesceticism. The documentary focuses on three small groups of yogis (each with two ...