The conditions in which human consciousness develops stand revealed through our relationship to concepts. The concept of justice, for example, is one which winnows its way down through philosophical and religious thinking to the present day, when its relevance for humanity becomes critical. We can ask, together with Socrates, whether a just person’s actions will [...]
Continue Reading...Life plays itself out on two levels. The one is breath and blood and heart, the other is thought and feeling and understanding. A fatal damage may occur to either. If to the first then life is over; if to the second then what remains of life – all your days – may seem like [...]
Continue Reading...Truth will always find its friends. I understand that because truth knows me and calls me by name. Who is truth? Pontius Pilate asked the question, ‘What is truth?’, because he did not know the being who stood before him. Would you or I have acted differently? Pilate was in a position of authority – [...]
Continue Reading...Which is greater, the love of life or the fear of death? If you level them out you have the sphere of earth: a roundness purporting to be flat. Earth is the sphere of our activity – we walk in it in life and lie in it in death. Therefore in a sense the joys [...]
Continue Reading...There will always be guides along the way but the path you follow has to be your own. Your own star shines above it with absolute radiance. A true guide will never tell you to follow a different path – they will give you the understanding you need to follow your own. So many followers [...]
Continue Reading...As a child, my hands held each day like a ball; my holiest secret the dark halls of night. Is this so any more? The child’s eyes are still there but they see different things now. The kingdoms of fantasy have not disappeared – but they take a different form. This fact is very difficult [...]
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