We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
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A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.
He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.
Love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness are the sources of all enduring, pure happiness.
Happiness will bloom With fragrance and beautyIf you plant the seeds of loveWith a deep driving desire in the garden of hopeAnd nurture with tenderness,Compassion, and care;If you are always eager to share.
It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered by Augustine and Aquinas. On this ancient-medieval-properly-postmodern model, we rightly give up pretensions to absolute knowledge or certainty, but we do not thereby give up on knowledge altogether. Rather, we can properly confess that we know God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, but such knowledge rests on the gift of (particular, special) revelation, is not universally objective or demonstrable, and remains a matter of interpretation and perspective (with a significant appreciation for the role of the Spirit's regeneration and illumination as a condition for knowledge). We confess knowledge without certainty, truth without objectivity.
If we presuppose that Jesus and God are one__s many (but not all) Christians do__hen we can also infer that Jesus Christ was omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent, and it is with this that the idea of sacrifice is lost. The martyrdom was premeditated on the part of the Creator, and Jesus was resurrected afterward__howing that the act of __eath_ was not an inconvenience for the immortal __an_ who was said to have known that he would be resurrected.
Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul. _
Knowledge is a sacred gem that must be conquered,wielded and empowered. To access such gnosis is not a right,but a privilege of the evolved.
The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger. _
Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night. _
Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat.
An Asetian never tries to talk louder than the crowd surrounding him. An Asetian becomes that crowd.
Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze. _
To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness. _
Poor are those who have eyes but cannot see... _
Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it. _
However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.