Eschatological Being
Vertical Particularity meets Horizontal Universalities
Showing posts with label Muso Soseki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muso Soseki. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2015
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Vertical Particularity meets Horizontal Universalities
“And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37-37 (RSV)
“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular…I have often come to making enthusiastic schemes for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually have faced crucifixion if it had been suddenly necessary; and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together...” The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Some humans ain’t human, some people ain’t kind. You open up their hearts and here’s what you’ll find: a few frozen pizzas, some ice cubes with hair, a broken Popsicle, you don’t want to go there.” Some Humans Ain’t Human by John Prine
Vertical Particularity meets Horizontal Universalities
About Me
- krasnodama
- Being - An interconnected web of relationships linked in the abiding love of Christ - Mother, Wife, Sister, Friend, Pastor, Theologian, Sailor, Daughter, Prophet, Aunt, Neighbor, Seeker, Explorer, Dog Lover...Titles that have no meaning without the relationships attached to them.
Guiding Reflections on Human Beingness
In the darkness dwell
The eagles and fearless
The sons of the Alps go out over the abyss
On lightly built bridges.
Therefore, since massed around are
The peaks of time
And the dear ones dwell near to one another,
Tired on mountains farthest apart,
Grant innocent water,
O give us wings, to go over
Loyal-mindedly and return.
Holderlin
“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular…I have often come to making enthusiastic schemes for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually have faced crucifixion if it had been suddenly necessary; and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together...” The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Some humans ain’t human, some people ain’t kind. You open up their hearts and here’s what you’ll find: a few frozen pizzas, some ice cubes with hair, a broken Popsicle, you don’t want to go there.” Some Humans Ain’t Human by John Prine
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependenceof all these living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved in one another. - Thomas Merton
Philippians 2: 1-14
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. 5Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, 8 he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Books I am Reading
- The Gate by Natsume Soseki
- I and Thou by Martin Buber
LOVE THE QUESTIONS THEMSELVES
Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms...Do not seek the answers, they cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers. Rilke