FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY! Good Morning Digital Neighbors & Friends! Well another week is heading into the rear view mirror. I hope this Easter Week has brought you plenty of chocolates bunnies, jelly beans, peeps (no longer an Easter thing and that is WRONG?!?!?!) and the best of the Easter diabetic training diet, malted eggs. Alrighty, since we visited with Jung and it has been some good food for thought. How about a Jung finisher for Friday? On to the quote!
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
If this statement is true, it explains why we live in a such an age of disorder. We have abandoned most conventional & tested wisdom and have become addicts of new and non-conventional thinking. We have become a culture that has lost it dynamic balance of the healthy interplay of preserving conservatives, creative liberals and the much need stabilizing moderates.
Feelings have replaced thinking, thinking has been distorted & dismissed and the absurd often becomes the norm. I am a fan of having space for the absurd, but I don't think it should be celebrated at the core of culture. I am not a fan of just becoming Vulcans either and ignoring feelings. While logic and reason could lead to a more mannered society, I doubt it would be a colorful or robust one. The dance of thinking & feeling, much like the healthy interplay in communities of conservative, liberals and moderates, leads to balanced, integrated an healthy individuals. Our failure to call certain attitudes, dispositions or mindsets deviant any more is to our detriment. I am not advocating cruelty to the deviants, but catering to them is not working. More wisdom is needed to continue a society that is both compassionate and courageous. Happy Friday my friends!
Old Barn in the Wildflowers on a Misty Spring Morning
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
https://x.com/TBifford/status/2087992591279407133/video/1?s=61
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
