Category: Perennial Philosophy
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For Tihleigh, 21 Oct 2023
If you do not bring your friends up with you, who will? If you do not let your friends bring you up, who really can? There is nothing else to lifting each other up than beholding that the greatest truth—freedom—obtains between the interwoven threads of those who share a simple…
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APHORISM 01Oct2023
The Divine Good, being omniscient, can never forget. But as Good Being, chooses to not remember, letting-go of condemnation in the face of honest repentance. When we forgive ourselves for our actions–for all we have done that we should not have, for all that we have not done that we…
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APHORISM 16July2023
What good is a chance if you do NOT take it? Do you think opportunities just lie about waiting for when you feel ready? No! The opportune time is a moment of recognition: The weird winds of life have blown you toward a happy harbor—Are you brave enough to get…
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The Devil and Thomas Jefferson
America is ruled by Mammon wearing the skin of Christian Nationalist Jesus. But that doesn’t mean all hope is lost…
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Finding unexpected meanings
Take care with how you read but do not be afraid to find new interpretations.
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Ready… set… leap!
Obviously, folks make leaps all the time: they leap for real joy, they leap to invalid conclusions, they leap into bad deals, etc. So a distinction must be drawn between springing-forth from the solid ground of critical experience (the dance of uncertainty) and hopping-around on the shaky ground of uncritical…
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Reading my life as a “useless passion”
Problem posing from my experience increases my existential literacy in the direction of liberatory praxis.
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Philosophical Faith
Philosophical Faith, according to Karl Jaspers, provides each person a way of understanding the world and their place in it. Unlike religious belief, there is no need for a special revelation from a prophetic figure nor any required dogma to express universal truths. Rather, philosophical faith stands on the basis…
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Aphorism 25Mar2023
If I am willing to be open to the uncertainty of being in the lifeworld alongside all these others also struggling toward liberation, I must never forget: Evolution is neither preservation of the status quo nor conservation of the familiar; rather, evolution creates the opportunities for what has yet to…
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Some thoughts on guilt and innocence
To the degree that there is an intentionality to guilt. it would involve consciousness of failure. In this sense, I mean failure to do the right thing: either because you failed to do right on purpose or by accident. Existentially, this makes guilt always already a reflective acknowledgment. Imagining consequences…
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Aphorism 17Mar2023
Do not talk to show-off the many things in your stable of understandings. Rather, speak to shine-forth the experience of passing-through this moment. Otherwise, remain in the dignity of silence. Flowing quietly with the Encompassing Now/Here, how can there be any impediment to overcome?
