Lesson from Volume 35 No. 4, Winter 2010-2011: Beauty

January 1, 2011By Elizabeth Napp

Beauty (Vol. 35. 4)
Article: The Verses of the Theri Ambapali, translated and retold with commentary by Margo McLoughlin

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In his heralded poem “Burnt Norton,” T.S. Eliot speaks of “The still point of the turning world,” a near perfect expression of Change and the Changeless. Eliot attended lectures in 1920s London by the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky, featured in this Spring 2019 issue of Parabola; no surprise as the search for that still point is a perennial spiritual quest, one that has inspired seekers from the Buddha to Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and countless others including G.I. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky’s own teacher. Read more>

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