Good morning to all my neighbors across the interwebs! Happy Wednesday to all! Wednesday's posts are about prayer or reflection, more for variety's sake than anything else. One can never have enough prayer in one's life if one believes in God, and if one is trying to cultivate an interior state of awareness and some depth of personality or character, one needs reflection—even if one is dubious about the God question.
Most studies say people experience inner speech about 25% of the time on average, with around 30% to 50% having interior monologues on a regular basis. I can’t imagine that number being so small, but apparently others only have an interior monologue in a partial way or only in certain circumstances. Around 5% to 10% have no dialogue ever. They experience anendophasia, and until I did some searching, I didn’t know there was a term for that. For the most part, interior monologue is on a spectrum—from those of us with a nonstop companion on board to those with less intrusive inner space. Happy Wednesday, my friends. May you and your inner voice (or voices) have a great day!
With Your feet I walk
I walk with Your limbs
I carry forth Your body
For me Your mind thinks
Your voice speaks for me
Beauty is before me
And beauty is behind me
Above and below me hovers the beautiful
I am surrounded by it
I am immersed in it In my youth
I am aware of it And in old age
I shall walk quietly
The beautiful trail.
— Navajo Prayer
Schiller, David. The Little Book of Prayers
West Mitten Butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona- Richard Hedrick - Unsplash
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.”
