Doc Dutch (08-07-2020)
Doc Dutch (08-07-2020)
Phantasmal (08-07-2020)
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Doc Dutch (08-07-2020)
Doc Dutch (08-07-2020)
Phantasmal (08-07-2020)
Science calls it Energy. My belief is that there is so much I do not know, nor will I in my time on Earth. My illness taught me to live in the moment. The Perfect Present. I allow myself moments of “meditation” and this is when delve deeper.
I use to try to search frantically for the answers and now, like Iris DeMint, I let the mystery be. I just marvel at the wonder of it all.
Doc Dutch (08-07-2020)
ThatOwlWoman (08-07-2020)
Interesting series. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay in 1841 touching on the same theme and titled "The Over-Soul".
"Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul."
One model I use is the cycle of water; how our souls are like water molecules and the ocean is the "Over-Soul".
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
ThatOwlWoman (08-07-2020)
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
ThatOwlWoman (08-07-2020)
Agreed about living in the present. The "Eternal Now".
Example: https://www.choprafoundation.org/art...e-eternal-now/
Zen is a way of life that emphasizes living in the present. Ask a zen master "Can we get together for coffee some time" and they'd mostly likely say "Let's go right now!" Alan Watts spoke a lot about this. He mentions people spending too much time taking pictures to "preserve the moment" to actually experience and live the moment.
He spoke about the problems people living in the past as speeding through live at 90MPH looking through a rearview mirror. He spoke about those constantly living in the future seeking happiness such as making plans to buy a house, get a promotion, buying a new that they are never happy because they can't attain the future. It doesn't exist. Only the present exists. Live in the present.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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