Tag: goodness
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Peace Within, and Particular Alignment Acquire a peaceful spirit immanently. Far from passivity, it is preparation for the greater battles. Cultivate a profound stillness that permits vision beyond illusions of the world. Embracing the present moment with unshakeable serenity, despite the turmoil and chaos which surrounds us. To acquire peace within is to recognise that…
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The Only Focus on Particulars & Universals Let us begin with a truth so simple it is often overlooked: the soul is more than a passenger in the body; it is the driver of all human purpose and confused only by separation from God’s purpose. Lasting focus in spirit must be based upon a recognition…
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No Secular Atheists in the Bible When Paulus spoke, he did not address those who doubted the possibility of divinity; he addressed those who already believed in various gods, so very few if any doubted higher power but rather the mechanisms which Paulus taught of God’s. They doubted God’s GOODNESS and Greatness without really realising…
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The Absolute and Eternal Undefinable Definer Growth in individual self-discovery is where the concept of Oneness takes on its deepest and most personal significance, as a craving for unity within ourselves. In our daily lives, we are often fragmented and torn between conflicting desires, in whirlwinds of thoughts and emotions. However, if there were a…
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Would We Have the Mind of God or Simulacrum? Imagine a world where every idea is a god, and every thought is a prayer. How would such a world look? It would be a place where no one could ever truly believe in anything, for every belief would be an idol: a stone carved from…
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Be Aware in All Actions Dear Man Central to the journey of reflecting grace through magnanimity is honesty, the bedrock upon which all reason, and therefore all proceeding virtues, must stand. Magnanimity demands that we be honest and aware of ourselves and others, acknowledging faults and ordering higher expectations. Rather than wallow in pity parties…
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Holy Purpose in Division Paulus said, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). This verse, often misread or oversimplified, is not a call to erase identity but a revelation of the divine order that…
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The Insults are Nothing To win without fighting is the ultimate victory, and nothing suggests an inability to do this more than to be always ready for a spiteful response with any insult. This is not really any form of non-violence, but rather the demonstration of a meekness in strengths as focused upon goodness. At…
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Taking for Granted the Community and Cultural Commonality Humanity often seeks to build an artificial means to heaven through its own perceived strengths, only to be scattered by divine intervention of the very real consequences of such attempts. Kierkegaard’s philosophy, in its insistence on individual faith, is a structure built on the ruins of reason,…
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Reconciling Objective and Subjective If Heidegger’s existentialism sought to reconcile a perspective of Christian theology with the modern age’s fragmented self, Kierkegaard took a different path, one that rejected even the idea of universal truths in favour of the individual, as the sole arbiter of meaning and beauty. Is this not a structure built on…