February 21
ATTACHMENT
Attachment to things worldly is a virtue within certain bounds. It becomes a vice when one becomes incapable of detachment.
The mother needs be attached to her child. But if the child grows into an incorrigible rake she should be able to detach herself from him. That man lives well in the world, who is capable of both attachment and detachment.
Man grows in spiritual excellence when he gives up all attachments to sense-objects which are evanescent.
--- Vedanta
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ROCHEFOUCAULD
RÉFLEXIONS OU SENTENCES ET MAXIMES MORALES
63
L'aversion du mensonge est souvent une imperceptible ambition de rendre nos témoignages considérables, et d'attirer à nos paroles un respect de religion.
64
La vérité ne fait pas tant de bien dans le monde que ses apparences y font de mal.
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63.—The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
64.—Truth does not do as much good in the world, as its counterfeits do evil.
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Visitors to Florence baptistry will be able to see its famous ceiling mosaics up close
フィレンツェのサン・ジョヴァンニ洗礼堂、修復中の天井画を前例のない方法で公開へ
The Baptistry of San Giovanni is one of the most iconic monuments in Florence, Italy. Visitors are now getting a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see its ceiling mosaics. And it’s thanks to some out-of-the-box thinking.
The mosaics are being cleaned, a process that will take six years. But the area won’t be closed to the public.
Officials built a 32-meter-high scaffolding platform for the art restorers.
The platform will also allow small numbers of visitors to see the ceiling mosaics at eye level. Visits are set to start on Feb. 24 and must be reserved in advance.
The platform will have special routes that will “bring visitors into direct contact with the mosaics,” said Samuele Caciagli, the architect in charge of the restoration site.
The six-year restoration project is the first in over a century at the baptistry. (AP)
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Joshua 012
Chapter 012
***** List of Defeated Kings *****
1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:
4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;
23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;
24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
