Spiritual Fruits or Just Nuts?
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Let the beauty we love be what we do. ~~Rumi I love this picture, taken when the Christ the Redeemer statue was under construction. One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, it was built in Rio di Janiero in the 1920’s and is huge, overlooking the whole city. It captures how I so often feel on the path and I look at it from time to time to remind me of what it symbolizes to me in my...
Read MoreObject Impermanence
Today I am thinking of Jean Piaget and his theory about object permanence. As you may remember from your college psych 101 class, Jean Piaget theorized that the role of maturation was instrumental in a child’s increasing capacity to understand their world. Put another way, we cannot undertake certain tasks until we are psychologically mature enough to do so. For those of you who didn’t make it to class that day, or had more sense than to major in psych and minor in Eastern philosophy, here’s the bottom line: Jean Piaget had a bazillion theories about the cognitive...
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