Keeping Silent ©1998 NICOLEA
Gefesselter Prometheus, Peter Paul Rubens
Consider: To be silent and to say nothing of what you see keeps silent what you see. To keep that silent, silences yourself and keeps you convinced that you are unable to risk saying what you see.
But you did come to a conclusion about what went on - only you never put it into words, so it lives on as an attitude or a feeling which has shaped and molded your very personality. "Putting it into words" surfaces what you have kept silent, even from yourself.
Why is the idea of sacrificing what you see connected with the appearance of caring and love?
May we preserve these philosophical beauties, and exhibit them to others. May this web site expand their elegance by the enlivening rays of the philosophic fire; and by the powerful breath of genius, scatter abroad in this virtual world these latent but copious seeds.
If some sparks of this celestial fire shall animate the reader, consider yourself as well rewarded for this laborious undertaking. Ancient philosophy has been, for centuries, the only study to break the shackles of ignorance; and in which one finds an inexhaustible treasure of intellectual wealth, and a perpetual fountain of wisdom and delight.
Presuming that such a pursuit bestows the highest benefit, I, Webmistress, desire no other reward than the wealth of wisdom, and Reason as my constant Guide. If successful, may I see the praise of the liberal; and if not, I expect no defense for failure, other than the decision of the candid, and discerning few, thus the opportunity to learn, and purgation by philosophic fire.