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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.
I believe that God-if he exists at all-is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up in costumes that make him visible to us. Then we come up with a lot of very silly rules that we attribute to him and tell everyone if they don't follow those rules, they can't be part of the gang.
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
If the highest things are unknowable then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.
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