01-26-2016, 03:52 PM
I really enjoyed your contribution, anagogy! I think we see things pretty closely, if language is a fine enough measure.
Excellently said! It reminds me of that Wittgenstein quote: "the meaning of the world does not reside in the world".
There's a passage from A Fool's Phenomenology that makes a similar point from a different angle.
It's almost as if the quality of faith is like a torch we pass from octave to octave that imbues the mystery of existence with its appreciable significance.
(01-15-2016, 12:45 PM)anagogy Wrote: So to summarize, in my opinion what Ra was attempting to convey was that we cannot discern the truth of illusion from within that illusion (or by using the tools of that reality).
Excellently said! It reminds me of that Wittgenstein quote: "the meaning of the world does not reside in the world".
(01-15-2016, 12:45 PM)anagogy Wrote: The only part of you that exists outside of illusion is your spirit, which is your link to source. The channel to truth is opened by nurturing one's faith and intuition.
There's a passage from A Fool's Phenomenology that makes a similar point from a different angle.
Stephen Tyman, A Fool\s Phenomenology Wrote:Faith is ever but the still point of this turning, churning world I call my life. That there is the possibility of faith is not just the bread of that life -- it is what is truly living in that life.
It's almost as if the quality of faith is like a torch we pass from octave to octave that imbues the mystery of existence with its appreciable significance.