Comments on: Contemplating an Ethic of Supernal Good http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/ Religion, Philosophy, Life Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: quentin http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/#comment-67 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:20 +0000 http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/#comment-67 "But yes, there’s certainly something here. Something perhaps worth exploring in more depth in another post…*thinks*" I'd be interested to read it. By the way, have you read any Kahlil Gibran? “But yes, there’s certainly something here. Something perhaps worth exploring in more depth in another post…*thinks*”

I’d be interested to read it.

By the way, have you read any Kahlil Gibran?

]]> by: Amber Simmons http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/#comment-66 Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:28:59 +0000 http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/#comment-66 Quentin: Loved that video. It reminded me of Martin Buber's I and Thou. One of the things he talks about is how while we are each the center of our own universes, each person we encounter is also the center of his own universe. We can't ever truly see that when we look at each other, so we have to be keenly aware of it. The other is not It, he is his own I. I must treat you as that, as You, infinitely important as I. Of course, Buber says it a lot better :) The second bit, your quote, is more difficult for me. I'm not sure I can agree that they are the same. While I agree that my eyes are Gods eyes, y eyes *alone* are not God's eyes; they are but a small piece of a greater vision. I contribute to what God is and what God sees but my experience is not the totality of that. But yes, there's certainly something here. Something perhaps worth exploring in more depth in another post...*thinks* Quentin:

Loved that video. It reminded me of Martin Buber’s I and Thou. One of the things he talks about is how while we are each the center of our own universes, each person we encounter is also the center of his own universe. We can’t ever truly see that when we look at each other, so we have to be keenly aware of it. The other is not It, he is his own I. I must treat you as that, as You, infinitely important as I.

Of course, Buber says it a lot better :)

The second bit, your quote, is more difficult for me. I’m not sure I can agree that they are the same. While I agree that my eyes are Gods eyes, y eyes *alone* are not God’s eyes; they are but a small piece of a greater vision. I contribute to what God is and what God sees but my experience is not the totality of that.

But yes, there’s certainly something here. Something perhaps worth exploring in more depth in another post…*thinks*

]]> by: quentin http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/#comment-65 Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:27:50 +0000 http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/#comment-65 I'm sure you're already aware of this, but I've just been reading Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas, and he quotes Meister Eckhart, thus: "The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me: my eye and God's eye are one and the same -- one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving." There's seems to be something in this seeing/vision theme. I’m sure you’re already aware of this, but I’ve just been reading Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas, and he quotes Meister Eckhart, thus:

“The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me: my eye and God’s eye are one and the same — one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving.”

There’s seems to be something in this seeing/vision theme.

]]> by: Quentin http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/#comment-64 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:42:11 +0000 http://breathlessnoon.com/2006/09/12/contemplating-an-ethic-of-supernal-good/#comment-64 The thing about the centre being where the sight is reminds me a bit of some of the stuff by <a href="http://www.headless.org/English/main.html" rel="nofollow">Douglas Harding</a>. There are some films on the website that explain his philosophy quite succinctly, like this one called, <a href="http://www.headless.org/movies/9%20The%20Heart%20of%20the%20Youniverse.MPG" rel="nofollow">The Heart of the Youniverse</a>. The thing about the centre being where the sight is reminds me a bit of some of the stuff by Douglas Harding. There are some films on the website that explain his philosophy quite succinctly, like this one called, The Heart of the Youniverse.

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