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Eros is the beginning of human moral life, and Beauty in art and literature are oftentimes more effective than religion in awakening eros within us. By eros we mean the love that makes us forget ourselves entirely and run towards the other without any regard for ourselves.
Hubris seems to signify not pride but rather a failure of the aesthetic sense: ingratitude. Not recognizing that life, talent and virtue are gifts
— Oct 26, 2022 01:16PM
Hubris seems to signify not pride but rather a failure of the aesthetic sense: ingratitude. Not recognizing that life, talent and virtue are gifts
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Kevin
is on page 218 of 748
Still an incredible reading
"Therapy is broken, and, I will argue, it is harming the human soul"
"Our passions cannot be healed through returning and analyzing the primordial chaos out of which we were formed"
"The task of the soul is to retrace consciously the steps by which creation itself first arose from non-being into existence, took on form, and became beautiful."
— Oct 21, 2023 09:43AM
"Therapy is broken, and, I will argue, it is harming the human soul"
"Our passions cannot be healed through returning and analyzing the primordial chaos out of which we were formed"
"The task of the soul is to retrace consciously the steps by which creation itself first arose from non-being into existence, took on form, and became beautiful."
Kevin
is on page 101 of 748
Non-being came into being by renouncing itself after contact with the beauty of a cosmic Theophany.
No one ever became holy by fighting evil. We only become holy by falling in love with Christ.
Beauty heals the ugliness of trauma, which is anti-theophany. Talk therapy and remembering trauma can be harmful. Films are indulging in trauma.
Purification-ascesis (Beauty) = attempting to fall in love with Christ.
— Nov 12, 2022 04:51PM
No one ever became holy by fighting evil. We only become holy by falling in love with Christ.
Beauty heals the ugliness of trauma, which is anti-theophany. Talk therapy and remembering trauma can be harmful. Films are indulging in trauma.
Purification-ascesis (Beauty) = attempting to fall in love with Christ.
Kevin
is on page 75 of 748
Christ as "the sinner" in the Jesus prayer. When we pray as "the sinner", we identify with Christ who took on the sins of others through love (moral culpability is not intrinsic).
Pride is not the first and most important sin. It always starts with concupiscence, not intellectual sins. An early East-West difference.
The virtues should be pursued in this order: Chastity (Beauty) →Empathy (Goodness) →Humility (Truth)
— Nov 05, 2022 01:24AM
Pride is not the first and most important sin. It always starts with concupiscence, not intellectual sins. An early East-West difference.
The virtues should be pursued in this order: Chastity (Beauty) →Empathy (Goodness) →Humility (Truth)
Kevin
is on page 35 of 748
What they seem to somehow do is that they take all of your pain, all of your isolation trauma. they may do this through weeping where you can't being outraged where you can't. What is crucial though, is that their intention is not to change you. Their only aim is to suffer for you.
The point of Christ's suffering, of his liturgy, is that He can take all of the chaos and convert it into life. Now that is liturgy.
— Oct 22, 2022 01:47PM
The point of Christ's suffering, of his liturgy, is that He can take all of the chaos and convert it into life. Now that is liturgy.
Kevin
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The opposite of war is liturgy. It is an act that purifies and knits the character together, whereas trauma unravels our character. Trauma excommunicates and teaches heresy.
Freud can be taken as the first step toward the recovery of the way of the heart in the West, but he can just as accurately be interpreted as the final step of a rationalism that wanted to kill the power of the mystical heart.
— Oct 22, 2022 01:28PM
Freud can be taken as the first step toward the recovery of the way of the heart in the West, but he can just as accurately be interpreted as the final step of a rationalism that wanted to kill the power of the mystical heart.
