69) The supernatural is no different from the natural. The supernatural is simply an aspect of the natural, the knowledge of which has perhaps been lost or is yet to be discovered.
70) The logical mind has difficulty in dealing with allegory, symbolism, mythology and archetypes because the logical mind is often reluctant to acknowledge its limitations. Nevertheless, the limitations of the logical mind are unquestionably real.
71) If we take the literalism and politics out of religion we rediscover a mystery.
72) Is to "turn water into wine" an allegory of the transformation that has taken place in a man who can Be and Act in accordance with what he Knows and Understands?
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Philosophical Musings 65-68
65) There is a tendency nowadays to think of truth in terms of factual information which has been verified. While this may tell us the truth of what we are in terms of mechanics it cannot tell us the truth of what we are psychologically and physiologically in the moment in a way that enables us to act selflessly and appropriately. What is the point of knowing everything there is to know about the human body and the energies which run through it if through one flash of uncontrollable anger we create havoc, even danger. As one remarkable man once said, it is like knowing everything there is to know about money without having any money in the bank.
66) To be touched by kindness, warmth and compassion is to be touched by the Truth, and if such kindness, warmth and compassion is exhibited by those we violently disagree with then so much the better for us.
67) Sometimes I think of the thoughts that are racing around inside my head, which want to shove my subjective opinions down someone else's throat, as being like a seperate creature or a fly that I would like to swat. But the fly is elusive and eventually flies away before it returns, again and again. The fly lives on auto-pilot. There is no need for me to do the same for every second of my life.
68) We all have negative emotions which from time to time possess us and even eat away at us. I think of Purgatory as being the friction between the desire to express such negative emotions and the knowledge that the expression of them cannot serve me
66) To be touched by kindness, warmth and compassion is to be touched by the Truth, and if such kindness, warmth and compassion is exhibited by those we violently disagree with then so much the better for us.
67) Sometimes I think of the thoughts that are racing around inside my head, which want to shove my subjective opinions down someone else's throat, as being like a seperate creature or a fly that I would like to swat. But the fly is elusive and eventually flies away before it returns, again and again. The fly lives on auto-pilot. There is no need for me to do the same for every second of my life.
68) We all have negative emotions which from time to time possess us and even eat away at us. I think of Purgatory as being the friction between the desire to express such negative emotions and the knowledge that the expression of them cannot serve me
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