And I don’t get where you got that I ever said that.
And what in that list of “all of your resources” isn’t chosen by your instincts? To me all you have said so far is to trust your instincts ("“trust your true self” - whatever it is that your instincts have led you to accept).
If that really is all there is - isn’t everyone already doing that. If my instincts (my true self) haven’t led me to being whole - just keep trying?
Isn’t there anything else different than what your instincts guide you to accept that might be more trustable?
Without human consciousness the iconic reality that we inhabit would not exist. The icons are low resolution representations of things that are actually there. The thing in itself beyond consciousness is everything and nothing at the same time.
Aiming for heaven is an admirable goal. After all we are a social hierarchical species. The Kingdom of Heaven is in us in the sense that we should be aiming to improve ourselves. Heaven is not a place to go but a way to be.
The principal of wholeness as it pertains to psychic integrity is a safeguard against fanaticism and extremism of the moral and or religious varieties which are based on objectivism and do violence to the soul. This kind of morality is theonomous rather than heteronymous. That is, it comes from within rather than from without.
On the other hand, the self’s calling or drawing to wholeness answered and obeyed by the ego results in integrity which delivers it from psychic idolatry and splitting. Thus unified, the ego is strengthened. This is a vision of psychic monotheism as opposed to polytheism.
They were the meaning and they were born into meaning.
Their world taught them that they and it were meaningless.
Religion taught them to have faith that there is a meaning.
Some believed it and some didn’t.
But how many saw that they were the meaning and that they were living in it?
Our ability to see things as pictures is achieved by the intellect not just by sensibility. To be able to identify something as an image of something else is to see the image as conveying not just a reminder of that depicted object but presenting it under a certain angle and with a certain slant and to see it with a certain meaning. All this is the work of intellect and not just sensibility.
Wholes can be analyzed into pieces and moments. Pieces can be detached from their wholes. Moments can’t. A branch is a piece of a tree. It can exist independently of it, at which point it itself becomes a whole. A musical pitch is a moment. It can’t exist independently from a sound.
It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.
The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a world so full of beauty, majesty, and terror that if animals perceived it all they would be paralyzed to act. … What would the average man (sic) do with a full consciousness of absurdity? He has fashioned his character for the precise purpose of putting it between himself and the facts of life; it is his special tour-de-force that allows him to ignore incongruities, to nourish himself on impossibilities, to thrive on blindness. He accomplishes thereby a peculiarly human victory: the ability to be smug about terror.
Thats some good stuff bro, first time I am seeing something sensible on this forum. Post more. I dont agree with the psychoanalysts and psychologists but this is at least interesting and coherent.
