I am the Little Jew who wrote The Bible

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lizzytysh wrote:Love your last line, theresa... it comes from a place quite unlocatable and
indefinable, doesn't it... and that feels right to me and as it should be
when the connection is deep.

Wow, I was just thinking about this 2 nights ago (as I have many times before); how this intense love & connection which I feel with Leonard is so unnameable, & seems to arise & exist in a realm which is completely beyond defintion or comprehension. And I am so very grateful for it.

Jarkko,thank you so much for posting the link to this wonderful article!
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This article is very deep and meaningful and I am totally enthralled in it...thanks Jarkko for posting.
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An excellent article. Thank you Jarkko.
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So much detail and very enlightening - Thank you Jarkko!
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"The taste of significance is what we call poetry." Wonderful. Thank you for posting Jarkko.
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Per mutti's posting, this says it for me:

"This article is very deep and meaningful . . . "
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Wonderful and fluid conversation between LC & AK – thanks for posting it Jarkko!
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That was a really great conversation. Most people don't really talk like that anymore. Not to take anything away from Kurtzweil, but Leonard has this humble authority when he speaks that makes you want to sit still and listen. So intelligent and articulate and insightful. I look forward to reading it again.

Many thanks for posting it.
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This i really a must-to-read-piece. Fascinating. Evenly fascinated I have been by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, referred to and narrated by Leonard (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-tibe ... -the-dead/). I don't know, if it has already been posted on the Forum.

Enjoy listening.
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As I read this piece, it occurs to me that Leonard's universal appeal is that he is our Roshi --in its purity and simplicity!

We appreciate the depth of his wisdom without the rigors of a trip to Mt. Baldy but no less reverentially !

Ah, to be a Cohenite!

But lets not go gagaga ! Remember the bathtub scene in an early documentary with Leonard writing "caveat emptor" on the wall !

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Post by rike »

I love your juxtaposition of

"... Leonard's universal appeal is that he is our Roshi ..."
and
" Remember the bathtub scene in an early documentary with Leonard writing 'caveat emptor' on the wall."
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