People live on only 1 or 2 floors of a large apartment building which is our minds, forgetting the rest. In ordinary life, we can get stuck in a single story, a story that is worn and cramped, living on just 1 level of a many-storied house that could be palace of possibility~ Carl Jung
Pythagoras’s math is often interested in 1-9. His teacher Abaris the skywalker from Ancient Mongolia taught him the enneagram. The oldest personality model we have that is in intact. A child’s personality formed by 4. And there were 9 main types and 1 that was split – the 6. The 9 enneatypes, starting with the …
Kindness and gentility are paramount to wisdom. One cannot shake hands with clenched fists. We know so little of the ways of entropy. The deeper Ancient Greek meaning of that word means inner transformation. Healing is automatic when laughter and good will reign. Yet, for those to be foremost in our meditations then wisdom demands …
All men live and die. Most survive, with the advent of modern medicine, some, a privileged few, thrive. The dignity of being a human means that we can all build lives of meaning and helpful capacity when we are quiet enough inside – and determined enough. That is all well and good and all aspire …
and the calm coming of dusk we can hear the rhythms of nature – we can contemplate the miracles of creation that are endless and ongoing when there is a transcendence of certain limited views of consciousness; and to quote Leonard Cohen; there is a crack in everything; that’s how the light/evolution gets in.
Joseph Campbell had a wonderful phrase – he said that life is all about what you are meditating on. Most of us meditate in a profoundly financially focused society on the flow of money. And that is important. Survival. Thriving. Right management of assets. But he said it is the focus of great artists and …
The mind instructing the hand through the compass of a refined heart.
So often wisdom is obscure and hidden and we must dig to find it in ourselves and in the reflected world. Yet, it is essential. To find in oneself and ones conduct the very leveraged knee of the world; the apex and the axioms of conduct – to excavate what matters to the great muses …
We may doubt in our capacity – but have we the courage to doubt that? That is an essential quest and question to wisdom. It is most profound and essential.
Einstein’s work together with Edison and Tesla and Maxwell, above all others (Planck and Curie deserve honorable mention) catapulted us into the modern era🐝. But it was Tesla that disagreed with Einstein about tachyons. About the idea that things exist that travel faster then the speed of light. Tesla was right and Einstein was wrong …