Dear folks,
People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking or thinking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. That the life experiences that we have on the purely physical plane will have resonances within … our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it’s all finally about and that’s what these clues help us to find within ourselves.
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
We’re having experiences all the time which … render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your joy is: grab it. No one can tell you what it’s going to be. You’ve got to learn to recognize your own depths.
— Interview with Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) Mythologist
We can develop a trust in our own gut. Common Sense is originally imparted to youth by adults. And one of the things we learn pretty early on is that adults do not have all of the answers. Nonetheless, we can accept their information as what they take to be the rules of life, and move on from their. Knowing what is expected in society is the beginning of self-governed behavior, for both the individual and for the society.
Peace,
Jim
COMMON SENSE
Definitions: (1) practical understanding or intelligence; (2) sound and prudent judgmentDerivation: Originally, common sense was the faculty uniting and interpreting the impressions of the other five senses.
Quotes:
Today’s common sense is yesterday’s science. — Neils Bohr (1885-1962) Danish Physicist
People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking or thinking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. That the life experiences that we have on the purely physical plane will have resonances within … our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it’s all finally about and that’s what these clues help us to find within ourselves.
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
We’re having experiences all the time which … render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your joy is: grab it. No one can tell you what it’s going to be. You’ve got to learn to recognize your own depths.
— Interview with Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) Mythologist
We can develop a trust in our own gut. Common Sense is originally imparted to youth by adults. And one of the things we learn pretty early on is that adults do not have all of the answers. Nonetheless, we can accept their information as what they take to be the rules of life, and move on from their. Knowing what is expected in society is the beginning of self-governed behavior, for both the individual and for the society.
Peace,
Jim
COMMON SENSE
Definitions: (1) practical understanding or intelligence; (2) sound and prudent judgmentDerivation: Originally, common sense was the faculty uniting and interpreting the impressions of the other five senses.
Quotes:
Today’s common sense is yesterday’s science. — Neils Bohr (1885-1962) Danish Physicist
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. — George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
A walking encyclopedia will walk over a cliff, for all its knowledge of cliffs and the effects of gravity, unless it is designed in such a fashion that it can find the right bits of knowledge at the right times, so it can plan its engagements with the real world. — Daniel Dennett (1942 – ) American Philosopher
SELF‑GOVERNING
Definitions: (1) having control or rule over oneself; autonomous; (2) characterizes a state, community, or region that is governed by its own people; democratic
Quote:
That state is best which governs least. — Thomas Jefferson (1742-1826) American Statesman, 3rd President of the Unites States
