Usury: The Root of Evil?
Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,“You owe me.”
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.—Hafiz, paraphrased by Daniel Ladinsky
Welcome to the 2nd post in the new series on postmodern spirituality. Let’s talk about what’s called “flow,” those times when we have “optimal” experiences, such as the “runner’s high,” great sex, making music (well :=) or solving math equations. Flow is a major component of spirituality. The most beautiful people in the world are those whose lives are filled with flow. Perhaps you know someone like that. More below:
Tough times calls for tough people. Personal resilience begins with toughening our minds. See, in G's take on human biology, the mind supports the spine. A weak mind causes the spine to dissolve. My major concern with progressives is the mind-spine connection. Only hard work creates a tough mind. Our minds are plastic: life will mold it for you if you don't construct it through will, hard work, perseverance. OK, there's work to do. First principle: modern ethics (along with all of modern philosophy) is bullshit. Classical times was tougher than our time. It produced tough-minded people. The classical world followed virtue-based ethics. I follow them. Below is a summary I did for myself of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. It explains the classical world's goal of life and I organized extracts of Aristotle's words into a coherent summary for my own use.
