Re: Reverence for life
Aug 15, 1998 08:23 AM
by Nicholas Weeks
Kym:
>Wrong-o. Reverence takes many forms - it need not include establishing who
>is "greater" and who is "inferior" anymore.
Methinks you have the cart before the horse. One does not establish
"greatness" first in order to revere someone or thing, it is innate (however
deeply hidden). Surely in nature you have stumbled upon a beauteous
vista that caused awe to arise spontaneously within you?
>From SD 1, 210: "Devotion ... is the only [feeling] which is natural in
our heart, which is innate in us..." Carlye is then quoted on the "great
antique heart"
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<> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
"Men must learn to love the truth before they thoroughly believe it."
Blavatsky
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