My brother has funny sayings.

"Don't fuck with my sunshine, and there won't be no rain!"

How to eff the ineffable

"We are taught here that the word 'ineffable' means 'not communicable by words that are analytic, abstract, linear, rational, exact, etc.' Poetic and metaphorical language, physiognomic and synesthetic language, primary process language of the kind found in dreams, reveries, free associations and fantasies, not to mention pre-words and non-words such as gestures, tone of voice, style of speaking, body tonus, facial expressions--all these are more efficacious in communicating certain aspects of the ineffable."
--Abraham H. Maslow, Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences, p. 85.
( More from Maslow. )

Reading shelf

I finished Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences today. Remaining on my to-read shelf (at least as far as philosophical, sociological, or religious topics are concerned):

The Physics of Immortality, Frank J. Tipler
Philosophy of Language, William P. Alston
The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley
I and Thou, Martin Buber
Grammars of Creation, George Steiner
What Is Religion?, Paul Tillich
The Hidden Gospel, Neil Douglas-Klotz
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Matthew Fox

The sooner I finish these, the sooner I can check out new material from the library.