The Role of Mankind

[Mikal]

Is there certainty in LOVE? I am certain I love.

There is no certainty in love....its the greatest risk we take in life for it is to lay ourself naked in vulnerability for the hope to enhance our mutual needs for affection, companionship, intimacy and deeper meanings towards our hope to share in one another's life....

love is a garden...we are the gardener...all good comes from visiting the garden every day not just in special seasons....


Mikal

[racecar]

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most... the sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from" (til we have faces)

[leskey]

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most... the sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from" (til we have faces)

From Wiki:

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold...constructed as a long-withheld accusation against the gods. Although the book is set in the fictional kingdom of Glome, Greece is often invoked to give the story a setting in time, as well as to allow for an interplay between the Hellenistic, rationalistic world-view and the powerful, 'irrational', and 'primitive' one

Lewis...idea behind the title was that a human being must become real before it can expect to receive any message from superhuman beings; "that is, it must be speaking with its own voice (not one of its borrowed voices), expressing its actual desires (not what it imagines that it desires), being for good or ill itself, not any mask, veil, or persona."

From "Genetic Entrophy and The Mystery of the Genome" by J C Sanford:

"When we awake to the reality of unity, we also awake fo the reality of beauty. We begin to realize that what we call "beauty" is simply the reocgnition of the comprehensive unity of designed things. In this light, beauty is not merely subjective. In this new light, beauty, like unity, can be seen as a truly objective and concrete reality."

[SB_UK]

"idea behind the title was that a human being must become real before it can expect to receive any message from superhuman beings; "that is, it must be speaking with its own voice (not one of its borrowed voices), expressing its actual desires (not what it imagines that it desires), being for good or ill itself, not any mask, veil, or persona."

"When we awake to the reality of unity, we also awake to the reality of beauty. We begin to realize that what we call "beauty" is simply the recognition of the comprehensive unity of designed things.
In this light, beauty is not merely subjective.
In this new light, beauty, like unity, can be seen as a truly objective and concrete reality."

Two spectacularly incisive quotes -

we arrive at the mechanism underlying
self-realization
and
continuity of all things

- for all of our most pressing questions to be answered by just one idea -
would be to suggest

:- )

that we're posting to the right forum.

Silje Nergaard

'get wiser
not just older'

(one of many favourites)

'draw her near
and hold her ... ... ...'

[SB_UK]

love is a garden...we are the gardener...all good comes from visiting the garden every day not just in special seasons....Mikal

'Candide' (Voltaire) in closing

il faut cultiver notre jardin

garden (mind)
garden (green)
garden (land)
garden (love)

- of note no dissonance
just
~calm~
circuitry closing upon natural
clock workings

[SB_UK]

Proper study of mankind is man:
Man has given up human qualities. They are totally forgotten. Today every material object has value but man has no value. Who attaches value to diamond? It is only man who attaches value. Who attaches value to gold? It is only man. If there is no man, diamond has no value. Man who attaches values has lost his own value! Men are more valuable than all the wealth of the world. It is not diamond, it is not gold, it is man who is most valuable. There is a yard in the heart of a city, which is very high in price. There in the forest it is very cheap. We should review human life. As the places get populated, the value of the land begins to increase. Fifty men make up a village, whereas a hundred people constitute a society. In a society the value of land is much higher as with a community of men the wealth (of men) of all material they use, has become valuable too.
Because there is no human habitation around! Where there is no human habitation there is no value. Where there is society there is more value. The value is because of mankind. We should remind ourselves of this fact that man is not cheap, he is chief. He should be a noble unit of the society, as when units are happy whole society is happy. Proper study mankind is man (both gender). He is the wealthiest creation of nature. Whatever he touches, that object gets value; wherever he settles, that land becomes valuable. Human values are great. Love&regards.ls

mind-body duality draws its duel to an end
- an honourable dual
with man as winners

(soon)

'stroke away her sadness
with a touch of moonlight madness'

what lunacy was to reveal -
- an eternal pacific ocean of darkening poignancy.

[melanie]

[lamedvavnik]

Awesome point Mel. Its with Love we can clean out all the illusions .. and then the reality dawns... Love and Love only...

[melanie]

Awesome point Mel. Its with Love we can clean out all the illusions .. and then the reality dawns... Love and Love only...

" We already have everything we need.
There is no need for self-improvement.
All these trips that we lay on ourselves-the heavy-duty fearing that we're bad and hoping that we're good,
the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage,
the jealousy and the addictions
of all kinds-never touch our basic wealth.
They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun.
But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here.
This is who we really are.
We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake."

~Pema Chodron~