Human strength

Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment.
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Pye
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Human strength

Post by Pye »

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Human strength . . . . does not require the pitting-against, the exploitation-of human weakness in order to realize itself. This is not strength but weakness in itself. This kind of human strength starts at level ground and assumes to gain its height by pressing down everything else around it into greater subterranean darkness. Human strength -- the genuine kind -- has no need for its complementary companion of weakness; does not require simple contrast to manifest itself. Human strength -- genuine human strength -- leaves weakness behind; has no need of its companionship to measure what it does; what it is doing. Genuine human strength is occupied with something else . . . .


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sky
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Post by sky »

it takes great strength to be gentle

and it takes great wisdom to be humble
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Diebert van Rhijn
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Post by Diebert van Rhijn »

"Strength" does never press down anything to define or assert itself. It's defined by that what presses itself down into that greater subterranean darkness. That what doesn't go with it, remains strong.
Elizabeth Isabelle
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Post by Elizabeth Isabelle »

Wow. All of these are really good.
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