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Posted on April 21, 2021 by admin50April 21, 2021

4-21-2021 Logic and rationality are flat, mythos and metaphor are bumpy.

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Aphorisms

5-20-2021 “The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.” A.N. Whitehead
5-20-2021 “The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?” Carl Jung
5-20-2021 “Motto: create transformative poetry, and distrust it. An example of this psychoactive poetry is this motto, which is recursive and therefore transforms itself as well as its advocate.” Cal Billings
5-20-2021 “We think more than we can say, we feel more than we can think, and we live more than we can feel.” Eugene Gendlin
5-18-2021 “Physics is a theology that makes machines work.” Unknown
5-18-2021 “Great people plant trees they’ll never sit under.” A.N. Whitehead
5-18-2021 “Much of the sacredness of old scriptures – the Bhagavad Gita, the Sermon On The Mount, the Heart Sutra – lies in the fact that they are partly our creators, that is, they transform our culture, like an invisible God or dark energy that has formed us out of themselves.” Cal Billings
5-18-2021 “If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God’s suffering, and the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.” Carl Jung
5-16-2021 “We think in generalities, but we live in detail.” A.N. Whitehead
5-16-2021 “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” Carl Jung
5-16-2021 “The symbol is the reflection of the eternal in and through the temporal.” Samuel Coleridge
5-16-2021 If turtles give birth to turtles, and humans give birth to humans, to whom does Divinity give birth?
5-11-2021 “Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul’s self-attainment. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.” A.N. Whitehead
5-11-2021 “God enters through the wound.” Carl Jung
5-11-2021 Secular reason tends to objectify, thus overly narrowing its scope. A person of faith tends toward superstition, thus overly expanding their scope. Both may benefit from an awareness of the other’s flaws as a way of appreciating their own.
5-11-2021 “It is the belief and not the god that counts.” Wallace Stevens
5-8-2021 “The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history.” A.N. Whitehead
5-8-2021 “In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.” Carl Jung
5-8-2021 With Martin Buber, we can characterize the fundamental religious insight as the intuition that everything which is not I myself, is Thou; but also, when considered as a whole, is We.
5-8-2021 “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” H.L. Mencken
5-5-2021 A single human thought requires the entire universe. In this sense, God and man are one.
5-5-2021 “We believe that the ‘mental-physical’ or the ‘mind-body’ split is a totally artificial one, and that to concentrate on either term in the dichotomy is to preserve neurosis, not to cure it.” Fritz Perls
5-5-2021 “Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.” Carl Jung
5-5-2021 “The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. The souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.” A.N. Whitehead
5-3-2021 “Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.” A.N. Whitehead
5-3-2021 “Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” Carl Jung
5-3-2021 Mind and matter are both sterile without soul.
5-3-2021 “There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.” Neils Bohr
4-26-2021 “Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.” A.N. Whitehead
4-26-2021 “To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.” Carl Jung
4-26-2021 In our conception of God we give birth.
4-26-2021 “The closest thing to the Gospel is laughter.” C.S. Lewis
4-23-2021 “The sphere of our possible intellectual knowledge is strictly conditioned by the limits of our own personality.” Evelyn Underhill

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