by starroute » Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:29 am
Okay, this is moderately strange:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/tgcbp/">carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/tgcbp/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>You, like I, may be looking for that cathedral-building experience. That driven feeling and joy in living you see in yourself those times when you've imagined the big idea, the great project that you will never finish, and you are now about to take the first step in a life free of distractions from your focus on your project.<br><br>The Christians and TomotOm will tell you it is not your project. It is the project of G-d, of the universe, of the energy becoming aware of itself. Now you feel that joy in living because you are no longer fighting what you are supposed to be doing. That thing that if you did not do would be done anyway, eventually, and by you. That thing that you can do because you're here, now, in the place where you are, in the body that you care for.<br><br>Tomotom says that what you should be doing makes you feel joyful, and what you should not be doing saps you of energy. And that you should refuse to do anything anti-evo unless to avert something worse (e.g., tell a lie to save a life).<br><br>Both Goethe and Tomotom suggest "It would therefore be anti-evo to be satisfied with or ever cling to an existing state of affairs." [1] [2] A mantra of progress, of constant striving guided in the most life- and awareness-enhancing ways.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>And the footnotes go to:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>[1] Tomotom Stiftung, ProEvo (Chur, Switzerland: Verlag Asama AG, 2003, ISBN 3-9522519-0-9) p. 92.<br><br>[2] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, part one; translated, with an introduction by David Luke. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987, ISBN 0192816667 (pbk.) 0192510401) winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Faust, part two. (I will add related quotes and page numbers later, as I don't have the book here, now)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>