"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing a piano; it requires the thinking of chords of thoughts, not just isolated simplisms or abstracta; it demands the shaping or encompassing of morphological modes of intelligence that can comprehend gestalten, syndromes, historical and civilizational patterns in which it is not the particulars but their interactive significance (as an ensemble of actualities or principles) that is vital.
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordin… - Kenny Smith
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordin…
- Kenny Smith
The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you m… - Kenny Smith
The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you m…
Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and sp… - Kenny Smith
Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and sp…
Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to somethin… - Kenny Smith
Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to somethin…
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that… - Kenny Smith
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that…
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their… - Kenny Smith
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their…
I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've never seen … - Kenny Smith
I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've never seen …
The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from… - Kenny Smith
The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from…
Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the goo… - Kenny Smith
Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the goo…
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