Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 halaman The sensitive mind and the rugged individualist are portrayed in the literature of antiquity by two brothers, the first-born and the second-born. The mind is the father of two sons. One side of us is conservative, cautious; the other side is radical and adventurous. A part of us is content with the status quo; another part of us seeks change and improvement. The mind perceives first with the outer five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. Those perceptions are recorded and processed for future use, and thus the mind has five inner senses, the second-born son. In the Old and New Testaments this concept is expressed through several pairs of brothers. Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin, Aaron and Moses, John and Jesus are all characters created to illustrate the mind's journey. The eastern Mediterranean became a marketplace for the exchange of ideas that had their provenance not just in Athens or Alexandria, but made their way westward from India and China well over 2,000 years ago. The lunar calendar and the appearance of the full moon was not just vital to agriculture in Mesopotamia; it spawned metaphors that illustrated the mind at its brightest. Abraham, for example, Hebrew for "father is high," was a moon god who symbolized the full moon, i. e., the moon straight up or high. "Father" is high because the mind is the father of two sons. Obviously, many concepts evolved independently, but migration and commerce exported and imported more than just figs and wine. Adam and Eve, the male and female of Genesis, are reflected in the yang and the yin of Taoism in ancient China. Elizabeth, Mary and Jesus are a variation of Demeter, Persephone and Dionysus. Thinkers over the ages have struggled to come to terms with the rough and tumble of daily life. Some have even suggested that life begins in some faraway place after death. Others have tried to find the way to live now and die later. |
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... gives rise to the feeling that conveys the thought into words or action , or both , but if you give in to fear , doubt , anxiety , feelings of inadequacy , apprehension and all the negative influences that are there , you become ...
... give you the emotion , or motion from the inspiration to the enactment . And the rib , which the Lord God had taken from man , made he a woman , and brought her unto the man . And Adam said , This is now bone of my bones , and flesh of ...
... give expression to a goal or an ambition , an ideal , and we get no further than the image or the imagination of that ideal . We have in mind an icon or the picture of a perfect world and we give our undivided attention to what we ...
... give it thee.51 Previous ways of thinking are not necessarily all bad , as long as we recognize them for what they were and move on . We cannot allow ourselves to get involved in a tug - of - war between the future and the past . 50 ...
... give positive motion and direction to whatever inspires us . We need to come out from among observations that are obstacles to our progress before we can get to where we want to be . Ishmael and Isaac were the sons of Abram . Ishmael ...
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