”We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve” -Albert Einstein
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel
And these from Mr. Van der Leun ...
"And I am moved by the poetry of this most modern of images, not by the triumph of Reason which it seems to enshrine, but by that which is beyond Reason yet within it all the same.". ... an image with out even "the" image.
"Our Here. Our Now. Our miracle. Impossible but actual. On this unlikely melding of earth, air, fire and water, fused far ago from starstuff and now circling a single sun swimming in some out-of-the-way arm of a second-class galaxy, where we lift Atlantis into orbit; where we seek to populate the far stars in our searching."
Ahh so elegantly expressed ... I'm thinking about this and will be for a while. Tap post for link to the entire essay. I don't think it's any darker then the mud ... The mud we were raised out of and the mud that has a claim yet ... but no sting.
Advent.
The Christian calendar is organized around two major centers of Sacred Time: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany; and Lent, Holy Week, and Easter, concluding at Pentecost. The rest of the year following Pentecost is known as Ordinary Time, from the word "ordinal," which simply means counted time (First Sunday after Pentecost, etc.). Ordinary Time is used to focus on various aspects of the Faith, especially the mission of the church in the world.
googled liturgical calendar to get this all in order.
Some how, beyond reason, maybe before reason and after reason, the heart knows.
29 November additions:
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.and these ...
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
~ Einstein
... Sciences and The Humanities ... Separate tracks to off track maybe. I like what O'Donahue said about the soul of man ... That rather then contained within one's body, "it" encompasses the body. That idea makes sense to me because I am certain that our intellect is part of a developing soul ... It seems like it has to be because many of our choices are made intellectually ... Hmmm ... We think about stuff rather then simply act on impulse. We become less impulsive as we live our choices ... . I'm laughing at myself a bit here because I stop to wish impulses didn't carry consequences ... Uh, unpleasant consequences that is. Just saw these quotes which belong here for later ... I'm really just thinking about choices today and looking for a particular quote. I really like Einstein. I think he must have been a marvelous man.
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