So beautiful. I've been recovering/relapsing from an eye surgery for the past three months. I am home, not working, restricted to about 10 minutes of computer time per day, my big outings are three 15-minute dog walks. Dr. Kalanathi's description of time is so perfect, so resonant. The days pass, deeper, flatter, no freneticism, nothing for it but to be in the moment. I am grateful that my state is not life threatening; I am grateful for Dr. Kalanathi's gorgeous prose and insights; I am saddened that his life ended so soon.
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maybeperfectMar 17, 2015
To paraphrase the sage: This too shall pass. We may find, sometime in the future that the mistakes we seem to think we have made, along with everything else was made through the auspices of our divine creator, whether we seem to be capable of understanding it or not, and may have been mandatory asides, so that we may seem to participate in this inexplicable thing called consciousness. Goedel proved in the 20's and 30's the inherent fallibility of all formal systems and meta-systems. Since we, as humans, are thus limited in our capability of possessing absolute knowledge, we tend to play fast and loose with the veracity of our understanding in order to provide some scarp that can be clung to, in spite of its resting on nebulous sands. This may be all well and good as far as it goes, since it, too, may be part of God in some way, if everything else is. That is not to say that the paradigm could not shift into existence of absolute knowledge within humanity's grasp, only that so far as can be understood, as yet it has not. For all we know existence may only be possible in the presence of a question mark. All of the existence seeming to impinge upon our consciousness, may be a representation of God trying to discover if He exists. Since we must speculate about this, is it any wonder that all else may necessarily remain nebulous? An enlightened attitude might be comprised of the intention or desire that God accomplish whatever His purpose is ( if He exists,) since it may be identical to our own. After all, Who are we, anyway? Might not know...
krzystof sibillaMar 19, 2015
Thank you very much,...............You said what many,many,of human beings do want to hear,still we feel helpless..........what can we do???? Could those who agree unite and maybe manifest their inner longings in a more phisicall reality ? Are we ready for it?Alone we are weak.
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So beautiful. I've been recovering/relapsing from an eye surgery for the past three months. I am home, not working, restricted to about 10 minutes of computer time per day, my big outings are three 15-minute dog walks. Dr. Kalanathi's description of time is so perfect, so resonant. The days pass, deeper, flatter, no freneticism, nothing for it but to be in the moment. I am grateful that my state is not life threatening; I am grateful for Dr. Kalanathi's gorgeous prose and insights; I am saddened that his life ended so soon.
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To paraphrase the sage: This too shall pass.
We may find, sometime in the future that the mistakes we seem to think we have made, along with everything else was made through the auspices of our divine creator, whether we seem to be capable of understanding it or not, and may have been mandatory asides, so that we may seem to participate in this inexplicable thing called consciousness.
Goedel proved in the 20's and 30's the inherent fallibility of all formal systems and meta-systems. Since we, as humans, are thus limited in our capability of possessing absolute knowledge, we tend to play fast and loose with the veracity of our understanding in order to provide some scarp that can be clung to, in spite of its resting on nebulous sands.
This may be all well and good as far as it goes, since it, too, may be part of God in some way, if everything else is.
That is not to say that the paradigm could not shift into existence of absolute knowledge within humanity's grasp, only that so far as can be understood, as yet it has not. For all we know existence may only be possible in the presence of a question mark. All of the existence seeming to impinge upon our consciousness, may be a representation of God trying to discover if He exists. Since we must speculate about this, is it any wonder that all else may necessarily remain nebulous?
An enlightened attitude might be comprised of the intention or desire that God accomplish whatever His purpose is ( if He exists,) since it may be identical to our own. After all, Who are we, anyway? Might not know...
Thank you very much,...............You said what many,many,of human beings do want to hear,still we feel helpless..........what can we do????
Could those who agree unite and maybe manifest their inner longings in a more phisicall reality ? Are we ready for it?Alone we are weak.