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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Spirituality is congruent to passion
—Mark C. Chu-Carroll, Spirituality and Religion
So what do I mean when I say spirituality? There's something more to my life than just a bunch of chemical reactions. I love my wife. I care about other people. I care about the way the world is, and work for things that I think will make it a better place. These things—these emotions, desires, concerns—they may well be nothing more than emergent phenomena resulting from the basic physical and chemical processes that I am a part of. But for my own experience of my life, even if they are nothing more than an illusion, they seem real—as real as other abstractions like free will, morality, and other such things.
—Mark C. Chu-Carroll, Spirituality and Religion
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Well, the word spirituality is overloaded. Different traditions use it with very different meanings, making discussion of this difficult. Mark puts forward one definition, and I'm sure the person he quotes, PZ, was thinking of a very different one.
Thus I'd bet you'll find that "Spirituality is congruent to passion" will mean starkly different things to different people. Perhaps there's a more nuanced way of putting that?
Thus I'd bet you'll find that "Spirituality is congruent to passion" will mean starkly different things to different people. Perhaps there's a more nuanced way of putting that?
Peter:
Yes, your words are very true. But I can live with the ambiguity. I'm very ok with a word like "spirituality" meaning different things to different people.
I'm especially ok with the phrase "Spirituality is congruent to passion" meaning different thing sto different people.
It's more interesting that way.
Yes, your words are very true. But I can live with the ambiguity. I'm very ok with a word like "spirituality" meaning different things to different people.
I'm especially ok with the phrase "Spirituality is congruent to passion" meaning different thing sto different people.
It's more interesting that way.
In my experience, passion is fueled by spirit, but then so is doing the things I want done, and I have found that passion is fueled at the expense of getting stuff done getting fueled.
This is why hyperactivity gets in the way of accomplishing things.
This is why hyperactivity gets in the way of accomplishing things.
Coudn't agree with you more. For me:
The meaning of life, is that it stops.
Your purpose is to make things better for having lived. Thats it.
The meaning of life, is that it stops.
Your purpose is to make things better for having lived. Thats it.
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