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Page 73 - Reverence for Life" struck me like a flash. As far as I knew, it was a phrase I had never heard nor ever read. .1 realized at once that it carried within itself the solution to the problem that had been torturing me. Now I knew that a system of values which concerns itself only with our relationship to other people is incomplete and therefore lacking in power for good. Only by means of reverence for life can we establish a spiritual and humane relationship with both people and all living creatures...
Page 32 - The achievement of self-actualization (in the sense of autonomy) paradoxically makes more possible the transcendence of self, and of self-consciousness and of selfishness. It makes it easier for the person to be homonomous, ie, to merge himself as a part in a larger whole than himself. The...
Page 66 - ... on." Specialization tends to shut off the wide band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery of the all-powerful generalized principles. Again, we see how society's perverse fixation on specialization leads to its extinction. We are so specialized that one man discovers empirically how to release the energy of the atom, while another unbeknownst to him is ordered by his political factotum to make an atomic bomb by use of the secretly and anonymously published data. That gives much...
Page 31 - This community is no union of the like-minded, but a genuine living together of men of similar or of complementary natures but of differing minds. Community is the overcoming of otherness in living unity. The question is not one of exercising 'tolerance...
Page 69 - ... tests. But, as in medicine, those who think— as they need not— that there is any ethical imperative to keep healthy will observe this law as also a moral rule or moral norm. VIII The second great field or division of political theory is political philosophy. If I may quote Dr. Albert Schweitzer, " Intoxicated as I was with the delight of dealing with realities which could be determined with exactitude, I was far from any inclination to undervalue the humanities as others in a similar position...
Page 69 - ... undervalue the humanities as others in a similar position often did. On the contrary. Through my study of chemistry, physics, zoology, botany, and physiology I became more than ever conscious to what an extent truth in thought is justified and necessary, side by side with the truth which is merely established by facts. No doubt something subjective clings to the knowledge which results from a creative act of the mind. But at the same time such knowledge is on a higher plane than the knowledge...
Page 115 - Most painters require direct contact with objects in order to feel that they exist, and they can only reproduce them under strictly physical conditions. They look for an exterior light to illuminate them internally. Whereas the artist or the poet possesses an interior light which transforms objects to make a new world of them — sensitive, organized, a living world which is in itself an infallible sign of the Divinity, a reflection of Divinity.
Page 73 - Whenever my life devotes itself in any way to life, my finite will-to-live experiences union with the infinite will in which all life is one, and I enjoy a feeling of refreshment which prevents me from pining away in the desert of life.
Page 69 - We can find our right place in the Being that envelops us only if we experience in our individual lives the universal life which wills and rules within it. The nature of the living Being without me I can understand only through the living Being which is within me. It is to this reflective knowledge of the universal Being and of the relation to it of the individual human being that the humanities seek to attain.
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| Title | Threefold Method for Understanding the Seven Rays |
| Author | Kurt Abraham |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Lampus Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0960900284, 9780960900282 |
| Length | 150 pages |
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