"My Life Has Taught Me..."
Jul 9, 2017 11:02:15 #
"My Life Has Taught Me..."
"My life has taught me that true spiritual insight can come about only through direct experience, the way a severe burn can be attained only by putting your hand in the fire. Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else's insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of secondhand clothing, worn-out and passed down. I equate true spiritual insight with wisdom, which is different from knowledge. Knowledge can be obtained through many sources: books, stories, songs, legends, myths, and, in modern times, computers and television programs. On the other hand, there's only one real source of wisdom - pain. Any experience that provides a person with wisdom will also usually provide them with a scar. The greater the pain, the greater the realization. Faith is spiritual rigor mortis."
- Damien Echols
"Unless Someone Like You..."
The Reason..."
"The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread
running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational."
- Sydney J. Harris
"The Very Cup..."
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“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?”
- Kahlil Gibran
Graphic: "Entreaty," by horyma.
"My life has taught me that true spiritual insight can come about only through direct experience, the way a severe burn can be attained only by putting your hand in the fire. Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else's insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of secondhand clothing, worn-out and passed down. I equate true spiritual insight with wisdom, which is different from knowledge. Knowledge can be obtained through many sources: books, stories, songs, legends, myths, and, in modern times, computers and television programs. On the other hand, there's only one real source of wisdom - pain. Any experience that provides a person with wisdom will also usually provide them with a scar. The greater the pain, the greater the realization. Faith is spiritual rigor mortis."
- Damien Echols
"Unless Someone Like You..."
The Reason..."
"The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread
running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational."
- Sydney J. Harris
"The Very Cup..."
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oUc6WpOAwto/TMkwvV4uB9I/AAAAAAAAbqk/xGsT-aDWy_E/s1600/entreaty.jpg
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?”
- Kahlil Gibran
Graphic: "Entreaty," by horyma.
Jul 9, 2017 11:09:36 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?” - Kahlil Gibran
I was led to Kahlil Gibran's wisdom at an early age, through a gift of 'The Prophet.'
I was led to Kahlil Gibran's wisdom at an early age, through a gift of 'The Prophet.'
Jul 9, 2017 14:17:15 #
slatten49 wrote:
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?” - Kahlil Gibran
I was led to Kahlil Gibran's wisdom at an early age, through a gift of 'The Prophet.'
I was led to Kahlil Gibran's wisdom at an early age, through a gift of 'The Prophet.'
This post runs the gamut of rejection of faith and belief in the first passage on Pain. It is an unequivocal statement of the materialistic world as the only source of wisdom.
Kahlil Gibrain's verse is an affirmation of the Creator and a recognition that pain only permits you to know joy because our Creator made us in this manner
It represents the dichotomy of Atheistic materialism with acknowledgement of the supreme being and our relationship to the Deity.
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