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Unity is everywhere, in the minutest parts of our bodies, in the vast space of the cosmos and in the interconnectedness of all things. This consensus is an alternative to the traditional dualistic thought of many separate inert existences. This unity of all things in an intangible consciousness expands our perceptions of the material world and gives us a better understanding of the natural laws of Life as they apply to the individual and his\her relationship to the universal scheme of things. It is a view of unity and harmony that softens the harsh cutting edge of an isolated existence without love. The hostilities we might feel at this moment can be quickly dispelled, if we assist the natural processes that serve the function of reunification. The absence of unity and love in our lives is what makes us feel crude and incomplete so seeing our world as a backdrop for unity, we smooth away the tensions in the body and the mind so we can see energy flowing through dogs, cats, bacteria, people and the food we eat. Freely choosing unity and surrendering to its flow of energy, we assist the natural processes of relaxation that reduce mountainous problems to a size that we can cope with and overcome while we learn to love. Our lives become productive and fulfilling in proportion to the love we exchange so for that reason alone we should learn to appreciate and to feel the greatness of unity. Harmony comes when one feels one with all things.
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Chesterton has some advice for you:
The Church does often set herself against the fashion of this world that passes away; and she has experience enough to know how very rapidly it does pass away. But to understand exactly what is involved, it is necessary to take a rather larger view and consider the ultimate nature of the ideas in question, to consider, so to speak, the idea of the idea.
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever, as people always do if they are left to themselves. The truth about the Catholic attitude towards heresy, or as some would say, towards liberty, can best be expressed perhaps by the metaphor of a map. The Catholic Church carries a sort of map of the mind which looks like the map of a maze, but which is in fact a guide to the maze. It has been compiled from knowledge which, even considered as human knowledge, is quite without any human parallel.
There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked, all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them.
On this map of the mind the errors are marked as exceptions. The greater part of it consists of playgrounds and happy hunting-fields, where the mind may have as much liberty as it likes; not to mention any number of intellectual battle-fields in which the battle is indefinitely open and undecided. But it does definitely take the responsibility of marking certain roads as leading nowhere or leading to destruction, to a blank wall, or a sheer precipice. By this means, it does prevent men from wasting their time or losing their lives upon paths that have been found futile or disastrous again and again in the past, but which might otherwise entrap travelers again and again in the future. The Church does make herself responsible for warning her people against these; and upon these the real issue of the case depends. She does dogmatically defend humanity from its worst foes, those hoary and horrible and devouring monsters of the old mistakes. Now all these false issues have a way of looking quite fresh, especially to a fresh generation. Their first statement always sounds harmless and plausible. I will give only two examples. It sounds harmless to say, as most modern people have said: “Actions are only wrong if they are bad for society.” Follow it out, and sooner or later you will have the inhumanity of a hive or a heathen city, establishing slavery as the cheapest and most certain means of production, torturing the slaves for evidence because the individual is nothing to the State, declaring that an innocent man must die for the people, as did the murderers of Christ.
chesterton.org/gkc/theologian/whycatholic.htm
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"There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. "
Lets not forget Judaism. They have had a few thoughts…
Lets not forget Judaism. They have had a few thoughts…
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CHESTERTONRULES
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In what way is Judaism a continuous intelligent institution?
It may be, but I wasn’t aware.
Do they have a line of succession? Was this line maintained after the diaspora?
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CHESTERTONRULES
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Same question for you, and again I don’t know the answer.
Do these religions have a line of continuous succession?
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SedesDomi
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Uh, yeah.
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from what I read about this movement, it appears Hell has almost perfected its most ingenius invention: the Materialist Magician.
To get the ref, read the screwtape letters…
To get the ref, read the screwtape letters…
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It’s also funny how, about dogma, they keep talkinga bout how its bad, how it causes division, how it encourages elitism…all the while never questioning whether or not the dogmas are true.
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