tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post8448915988501880377..comments2023-09-28T10:08:44.827+02:00Comments on Gwynt: A Step Towards RealityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-79652356038215792592014-05-05T20:02:41.981+02:002014-05-05T20:02:41.981+02:00Inappropriate godlike powers!
I needed to hear the...Inappropriate godlike powers!<br />I needed to hear these words. Thanks Tom.Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-55948227178521722132014-05-05T17:22:51.371+02:002014-05-05T17:22:51.371+02:00Ellena and Halle; An ego is necessary, if for no ...Ellena and Halle; An ego is necessary, if for no other reason than to deal with our species survival in a threatening environment. That, surely, had to come first for the rest to follow. It seems to me that the ego does that very well compared to all the other species which inhabit the planet. But it does seem to me that, no matter how hard we try, our egos appear, in the light of the tasks we set it, to be flawed. It is a wonder to me that so much can be achieved by the ego. Unfortunately, the ego does, on many occasions (a reflection of the survival instinct perhaps, remember the computer HAL in 2001?) assume godlike powers that are inappropriate. In the end, all we can do is our best, and try to keep our eyes on the bigger spiritual picture that tries to paint a scene of total, not relative, reality.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-82023416820483927702014-05-05T15:15:35.556+02:002014-05-05T15:15:35.556+02:00A wonderful insight. Ellena, personally any empath...A wonderful insight. Ellena, personally any empathy I've gained over my life can be attributed to personal failings. Some of them seemingly unforgivable.Hallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847654451426257182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-29941042830672444892014-05-05T14:48:06.777+02:002014-05-05T14:48:06.777+02:00My humble opinion is that maybe egoless love and m...My humble opinion is that maybe egoless love and morality are out of necessity one. Without a powerful controlling and occasionally immoral ego one can not create/achieve great nor small undertakings out of love for humanity. Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-8856620205326965292014-05-05T14:32:34.934+02:002014-05-05T14:32:34.934+02:00I'm working on making a comment. I hope I'...I'm working on making a comment. I hope I'll succeed in finding the way.Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-40141328380059171702014-05-04T12:35:15.269+02:002014-05-04T12:35:15.269+02:00Halle; I agree with your opening statement. There...Halle; I agree with your opening statement. There is a real difficulty in trying to discover those teachings, as distinct from the teachings of the Church. Yet if one is to discover and live through the state that is one's Higher Self, a search for those spiritual fundamentals, (the Kingdom, as St. Thomas referred to it) is essential.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-59437739530911356082014-05-04T12:26:22.298+02:002014-05-04T12:26:22.298+02:00Susan: I would echo Teilhard de Chardin's vie...Susan: I would echo Teilhard de Chardin's views on mysticism in religion. (Thank heavens the mystic sense is not limited to religion, but is supra-present, if such a word exists.) <br /><br />It was so wonderful and heartening to read your account of his experiences of 'coming down the mountain'. If I ever risk wondering whether I am a dupe of a mirage of my mind, I quickly put that thought aside. And here's the reason. As you may have gathered from my writing, I am intensely aware of the power of the ego, its desire to dominate and control, and its risk all policy in support of its own survival. Such thoughts about 'a mirage of the mind' only serve to bolster its own importance and further its survival. Yet, as I have said before, it is the ego that cries out for redemption. It knows! That is what terrifies it. It knows! Pray that God in his mercy......Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-73728724487816266122014-05-04T12:13:30.805+02:002014-05-04T12:13:30.805+02:00Natalie; When you talk of 'morality in its de...Natalie; When you talk of 'morality in its deepest sense', I begin to sense awareness beyond - and unexplainable through - words. It speaks of a living reality which as you say is simple, yet so difficult to grasp. If one could genuinely come to that state of at-one-ment as a conscious reality, perhaps the difficulty would disappear, leaving behind a reality of being. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-70827007375655297122014-05-03T22:24:54.147+02:002014-05-03T22:24:54.147+02:00Tom, it has seemed to me that the search for one&#...Tom, it has seemed to me that the search for one's higher self must include an understanding of the teachings of Jesus the Nazarene, even if finding those teachings means sifting through what became the foundation of a religion. <br />There is so much here that glows for me, and I may be back to gush some more. "<i>If one lives by the gentle, and on occasions the very ungentle, dictates of love, morality becomes redundant and disappears of itself.</i>" Thank you Tom.Hallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847654451426257182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-73302279931805064712014-05-03T21:38:01.631+02:002014-05-03T21:38:01.631+02:00This process you speak of reminds me of the philos...This process you speak of reminds me of the philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (his birthday was May 1st), who said, “Without mysticism, there can be no successful religion: and there can be no well-founded mysticism apart from faith in some unification of the universe”<br /><br />Yet it's interesting to know that Teilhard had serious doubts about his own beliefs when he wrote, “How, most of all, can it be that ‘when I come down from the mountain’ and in spite of the glorious vision I still retain, I find that I am so little a better man, so little at peace, so incapable of expressing in my actions, and thus adequately communicating to others, the wonderful unity that I feel encompassing me? Is there, in fact, a Universal Christ, is there a Divine Milieu? Or am I, after all, simply the dupe of a mirage in my own mind? I often ask myself that question."<br /><br />Toward the end of his life he was quoted as saying, “If in my life I haven’t been wrong, I beg God to allow me to die on Easter Sunday,” and that is exactly when he died, on Easter, April 10, 1955.<br /><br />Keep up your fine effort, Tom. You're in very good company.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-52187845928488150222014-05-03T20:26:42.058+02:002014-05-03T20:26:42.058+02:00Tom, you already know my stand on religion/belief ...Tom, you already know my stand on religion/belief and so this post also resonates strongly with me. If all extraneous baggage, sentimental and otherwise, is peeled away from love what remains is, I think, morality in its deepest sense.The message of love transmitted by Christ was also expressed by other wise souls throughout history but we humans seem to have a hard time understanding its simplicity - a difficult simplicity!<br />Natalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.com