Saturday, March 29, 2008 Arinday: Fragments By GH Arinday, Jr. Sunfare
"It is, to my mind, a fatal mistake to consider the human psyche as a merely personal affair and to explain it exclusively from a personal point of view."--Carl Gustav Jung
FRAGMENTS of thoughts reach the distance shores and like the pulsars fear not the darkness of the constellations of kept wisdom, hidden from mischief, though waiting to be explored.
If constant sunshine makes a desert, the unceasing wind of anger makes the trees naked.
The quest for Truth is a journey on stony paths and the trail is unending.
A demagogue, like swine, appears washed of mire and does not grunt but ululates the wisdom of a fox.
The ways we interpret politics is like getting inside the empty cathedrals of moistened souls and chant the hymns of Hades.
The triangle has an unseen fourth dimension. The abstract causes the discord or even violence. It does not challenge mathematical equations but more of a priori knowledge of Immanuel Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'.
The illness of a truly political icon cannot in any manner "sideline the crusade for truth", contrary to a heading of news item, exposing the ignorance of the scriber.
Objectivity and subjectivity are inseparable sides of the coin.
Legends and myths are adornment of blissful life. Without them, life would be total turbulence.
Denial is not at all condemnable if it is a denial of selfness in thought, feeling and action. Lamentably, this is a lost treasure among not only of the leaders but also the great number of mendicancy-driven citizens.
In an era of cyberspace and highly sophisticated communication systems, a kind of "technocratic socialism" is more adaptable than any ideological nuances. It is time to visit the philosophical system of Claude Henri Comte de Saint-Simon with the "smorgasbord recipes" of Goethe, Carlyle, Augustus Comte, and Karl Marx.
The grain of rice has a soul of its own to be tenderly cared and a waste of morsel is not only a crime but also a mortal sin.
The morality of common sense is uncommon even on inane and innocent matters. What is common is senselessness. Read the statistics on crime and cases docketed in courts.
When a child cries, it is the first consciousness of what is pain and pleasure.
It is not what you think but what you do to manifest the range of your thoughts.
Literature, logic, and law constitute the trinity of knowledge.
"Civil society," for want of an exact description, is limited and derogative of those struggling but thinking sectors of society.
"Sound discretion" measures the range of the magistrate's mind.
Ego is the most offensive tool of a human being. It dehumanizes the individual.
Wearing a habit or a soutane is not a guarantee that the wearer shall lead you to the Gates of Heaven.
Lust does not spare even the eunuchs. It does not hinder completely even the earthly prophets from probing the sensualities of life's most mysterious avarice.
If one is lionized as a hero, he is likely to lose his composure and walks in the mist like a ghost seeking his physical being. It is a study in psychoanalysis.
We are a generation of fast-food-chain-fed, spoon-fed education, Internet-fed information, but never spiritual-fed persons.
In the wilderness of ideas, the nuggets of wisdom are often covered by filthy tailings of lesser-valued gems.
The refinements of a politician's pronouncements can never hide his sordid interests and vulgar ambitions when he extols the virtues of the poor.
The Supreme Entity of Nothingness is no other than the holy grail of an individual who often indulges in knowing the purpose of his Being.
In moments of despair, there is the absence of reflections. The force of desire is stilled.
The process of thinking as is common to most persons is often derivatives of what is being peddled as public opinion just as the soul is covered by clay. It is the most convenient way of sparing yourself of stress. It is thought cloning.
The philosophy of life with the inner mental life thirsting for knowing the exactness and wholeness of Truth is often resisted by an equal strength of denial giving birth to strident exchange of barbed-statements.
Rectitude among members of the same group often varies but is identical in the pursuits including mayhem.
"Jacobinic reactions" and psychic actions are the same in the Reign of Terror.
