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New post on Eclipse day. Please discuss below.
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My perception of the quote is that a person who has achieved true enlightenment can perceive everything around them with equal measure, including what we would consider darkness or evil. Their mind is open to all things and, in a way, there is no fear.
Or the orgs want us to blind ourselves while looking in the sun because that’d be fun. I’m joking, but thought I’d throw that out there.
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Every inspirational quote posting armchair activist asshole on Facebook would have you believe that enlightenment comes from sunbeams and flower paths and holding hands by streams of magical fucking carps made of glitter.
True enlightenment is seeing and really understanding. Good, bad, beautiful, ugly, happiness, sadness. All.
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Agreed, @meghanmayhem
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Agreed @mamatato, it definitely plays into themes of embracing a shadow self per earlier chapters. Maybe this references a whole overall picture that’s going to become clearer to us soon. Dusk is encroaching with the Eclipse, after all.
I also love this other quote from Kazantsakis that seems relevant here:
“By believing passionately in that which doesn’t exist, you create it. That which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non-existent.”
(Also: preach, @meghanmayhem. Let’s take it all in.)
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Lots of stuff to mine in quote’s author:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis
Wrote a ton on spirituality, existentialism, and religion, including LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.
NINE nominations for Nobel Prizes for Literature.
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Since it hasn’t been posted yet, the Painting is Adolph Gottlieb’s “Orb.”
Don’t have much time to look into the artist further at the moment, but here is his Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Gottlieb
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