Category: Spirit
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The Sound of Music
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche It reaches to the depths, and to the heights. To the foundation of stone, and the firmament of the stars. What would life be without music? It would not be life. No smell, sight, taste, or touch can reach us…
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No Fight, No Fighter, No Fire
Our inner fight, our inner fighter, our fire within, is juxtaposed by pleasure. The modern world brings the peaks of pleasure, now instantly at our fingertips. It is the the quantity, potency, and availability of pleasure that tames the fighter, eliminates the fight, and douses the fire. When we are…
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Image-model
“With this image as a model, the sage learns how best to develop himself so that his influence may endure. He must make himself strong in every way, by consciously casting out all that is inferior and degrading. Thus he attains that tirelessness which depends upon consciously limiting the fields…
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Rooted Change
“When we hit our lowest point we are open to the greatest change.” – Avatar Aang In The Legend of Korra, Avatar Aang’s spirit tells this to the new Avatar that proceeds him, Avatar Korra, after she experiences terrible personal tragedy. When we go so low, in whatever way, and…
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Empathy Math
Consider your own suffering. In your life, daily encounters, dreams. Hold it in your hand – all the difficulty, pain, struggle, and suffering you have. Now times that by several billion. That is the world’s suffering. Knowing each person we meet is suffering the same as us increases empathy and…
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The Life of the Spirit
For a long time the spirit, and the sufferings of the spirit, were positive values and the things more worth striving for in our peculiar Christian culture. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when spirit began to degenerate into intellect, did a reaction set in against the unbearable…
KEEP THE OLD WARM 