It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.
Lauren BeukesThus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.
Augustine of HippoNo matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: consciousness identity breath trust spirituality self-awareness self-knowledge meditation awareness becoming transformation enlightenment self-love being know-thyself
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: inspirational truth happiness reality acceptance buddhism inspiration identity zen spirituality self-awareness meditation awareness desire being know-thyself
The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that is, it loses its colors, so that grayness covers not only things of this earth and of space, but also the very flow of time, its minutes, days and years. Abstract considerations will be of little help, even if they are intended to bring relief. Poetry is quite different. By its very nature it says: All those theories are untrue. Since poetry deals with the singular, not hte general, it can't - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom or complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness.
Czesław MiłoszEvery specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.
Christos YannarasTags: love existence difference humanity relationships relatedness being sexual-difference being-in-relation yannaras
I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being.
Truth DevourTags: communication understanding connection being
The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.
Christos YannarasTags: love god presence being christian-love relation intersubjectivity relationship-with-god yannaras 8th-day-books relating-with-others
We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept.
The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence. We participate in existence consciously and rationally, with subjective self-knowledge and identity, because the erotic drive of our nature is transformed into a personal relation when there arises in the space of the Other the first signifier of desire: the maternal presence. The subject is born with love's first leap of joy.
Tags: love god joy jesus-christ transformation christ being intersubjectivity maternal-love being-in-relation yannaras eighth-day-books erotic-love love-for-god
To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.
Christos YannarasTags: love relationships repentance orthodoxy being repent eastern-orthodoxy relation intersubjectivity metanoia self-giving yannaras eighth-day-books kenotic orthodox-ontology
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