All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
Interpretation
Understanding requires frameworks, often built on theories and narratives that may not be entirely true.
Hermann Hesse suggests that our comprehension of reality is mediated through various lenses, including theories and myths, which may sometimes distort the truth. This quote highlights the complexities of interpreting human experience and suggests that our understanding is often based on constructs that might not fully align with objective reality.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of belief in society.
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged β to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation.
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?
Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry_x000D_ _x000D_ Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake_x000D_ _x000D_ Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake_x000D_ _x000D_ Laughter always follow tears_x000D_ _x000D_ Blessed are those who understand_x000D_ _x000D_ Life blossoms wherever water flows_x000D_ _x000D_ Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
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