Sofia Melfi
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Sofia Melfi
Our desire for moral good and moral bad to be neatly defined gets in the way of progress. There can be no singular truth in all circumstances, but because some self-beliefs border on intolerance, discourse is reduced to the same arguments of who is right and who is wrong. The way we ordain and absolve guilt and blame from others is very indicative... See more
Terrified of being liked.
Sensing & Knowing: David Abram in conversation with Dougald Hine
youtube.comIt is here religious stories, if we read them intelligently and not as the script for yet another rescue plan, can be a help. They show us what it is like to be this thinking, feeling, troubled creature, formed by forces it had no control over, wandering in the haunted wood of existence.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify, to reduce and limit. The natural world is unfathomably more rich, interwoven, and complicated than we are taught, and so much more mysterious and beautiful.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
In other words, a religious myth is a story capable of lifting the experience of being from the confines of time, space, randomness and blind automatism.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
creativity and nature
