Inspirational Words Thread

[Cerpin Taxt]

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

[Cerpin Taxt]

"There are countless quotes that point to the truths of life, words that can help you understand the world in a much more succinct way... and yet, the greatest gap yet to be bridged by most is that which separates knowing what is said and living what isn’t."

[SageTree]

Relation is reciprocity. My You acts on me as I acts on it. Our students teach us, our works form us. The "wicked" become a revelation when they are touched by the sacred basic word. How we are educated by children, by animals! Inscrutably involved we live in currents of universal reciprocity.

-From '' by Martin Buber




A little blurb which helps explain the crux of the book:
(from the wiki page)

Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways:

that of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience;
and that of the "I" towards "Thou", in which we move into existence in a relationship without bounds.

One of the major themes of the book is that human life finds its meaningfulness in relationships. All of our relationships, Buber contends, bring us ultimately into relationship with God, who is the Eternal Thou.

Buber explains that humans are defined by two word pairs: "I-It" and "I-Thou".

For "I-It," the "It" refers to the world of experience and sensation. I-It describes entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set (e.g., he, she or any other objective entity defined by what makes it measurably different from other living entities). It can be said that "I" have as many distinct and different relationships with each "It" as there are "It"s in my life. Fundamentally, "It" refers to the world as we experience it.

By contrast, the word pair "I-Thou" describes the world of relations. This is the "I" that does not objectify any "It" but rather acknowledges a living relationship. "I-Thou" relationships are sustained in the spirit and mind of an "I" for however long the feeling or idea of relationship is the dominant mode of perception. A person sitting next to a complete stranger on a park bench may enter into an "I-Thou" relationship with the stranger merely by beginning to think positively about people in general. The stranger is a person as well, and gets instantaneously drawn into a mental or spiritual relationship with the person whose positive thoughts necessarily include the stranger as a member of the set of persons about whom positive thoughts are directed. It is not necessary for the stranger to have any idea that he is being drawn into an "I-Thou" relationship for such a relationship to arise. But what is crucial to understand is the word pair "I-Thou" can refer to a relationship with a tree, the sky, or the park bench itself as much as it can refer to the relationship between two individuals. The essential character of "I-Thou" is the abandonment of the world of sensation, the melting of the between, so that an individual stands in direct relationship with another "I".

Despite the separation of "I" from the "It" and "Thou" in this very sentence describing the relationship, Buber's two notions of "I" require attachment to a word partner. Despite our splitting of these individual terms for the purposes of analysis, there is to Buber's mind either an "I-Thou" or an "I-It" relationship. Every sentence man uses with I, refers to the two pairs: I-Thou and I-It. This instance is also interchangeable with Thou and It which would refer to I. It is bounded by others and It can only exist through this attachment because for every object there is another object. Thou on the other hand, has no limitations. When Thou is spoken, the speaker has no thing or has nothing which means that Thou is abstract. The speaker yet “takes his stand in relation”.

What does it mean when a person experiences the world? Man goes around the world hauling out knowledge from the world. These experiences present man with only words of It, He, She and It with contrast to I-Thou. What this means is that the experiences are all physical and do involve a great deal of spirituality. The twofold nature of the world means that our being in the world has two aspects: the aspect of experience, which is perceived by I-Its, and the aspect of relation, which is perceived by I-Thou.

[SageTree]

Relation is reciprocity. My You acts on me as I acts on it. Our students teach us, our works form us. The "wicked" become a revelation when they are touched by the sacred basic word. How we are educated by children, by animals! Inscrutably involved we live in currents of universal reciprocity.

-From '' by Martin Buber




A little blurb which helps explain the crux of the book:
(from the wiki page)

Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways:

that of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience;
and that of the "I" towards "Thou", in which we move into existence in a relationship without bounds.

One of the major themes of the book is that human life finds its meaningfulness in relationships. All of our relationships, Buber contends, bring us ultimately into relationship with God, who is the Eternal Thou.

Buber explains that humans are defined by two word pairs: "I-It" and "I-Thou".

For "I-It," the "It" refers to the world of experience and sensation. I-It describes entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set (e.g., he, she or any other objective entity defined by what makes it measurably different from other living entities). It can be said that "I" have as many distinct and different relationships with each "It" as there are "It"s in my life. Fundamentally, "It" refers to the world as we experience it.

By contrast, the word pair "I-Thou" describes the world of relations. This is the "I" that does not objectify any "It" but rather acknowledges a living relationship. "I-Thou" relationships are sustained in the spirit and mind of an "I" for however long the feeling or idea of relationship is the dominant mode of perception. A person sitting next to a complete stranger on a park bench may enter into an "I-Thou" relationship with the stranger merely by beginning to think positively about people in general. The stranger is a person as well, and gets instantaneously drawn into a mental or spiritual relationship with the person whose positive thoughts necessarily include the stranger as a member of the set of persons about whom positive thoughts are directed. It is not necessary for the stranger to have any idea that he is being drawn into an "I-Thou" relationship for such a relationship to arise. But what is crucial to understand is the word pair "I-Thou" can refer to a relationship with a tree, the sky, or the park bench itself as much as it can refer to the relationship between two individuals. The essential character of "I-Thou" is the abandonment of the world of sensation, the melting of the between, so that an individual stands in direct relationship with another "I".

Despite the separation of "I" from the "It" and "Thou" in this very sentence describing the relationship, Buber's two notions of "I" require attachment to a word partner. Despite our splitting of these individual terms for the purposes of analysis, there is to Buber's mind either an "I-Thou" or an "I-It" relationship. Every sentence man uses with I, refers to the two pairs: I-Thou and I-It. This instance is also interchangeable with Thou and It which would refer to I. It is bounded by others and It can only exist through this attachment because for every object there is another object. Thou on the other hand, has no limitations. When Thou is spoken, the speaker has no thing or has nothing which means that Thou is abstract. The speaker yet “takes his stand in relation”.

What does it mean when a person experiences the world? Man goes around the world hauling out knowledge from the world. These experiences present man with only words of It, He, She and It with contrast to I-Thou. What this means is that the experiences are all physical and do involve a great deal of spirituality. The twofold nature of the world means that our being in the world has two aspects: the aspect of experience, which is perceived by I-Its, and the aspect of relation, which is perceived by I-Thou.

[Dr. Nick Nasty]

The secret of life is then that this fine youthful spirit shall never be lost. Out of the turbulence of youth should come this fine precipitate – a sane, strong, aggressive spirit of daring and doing. It must be a flexible, growing spirit, with a hospitality to new ideas and a keen insight into experience. To keep one’s reactions warm and true is to have found the secret of perpetual youth, and perpetual youth is salvation.-Randolph Bourne

[AnimalLover420]

One of my recent favorites.

[SageTree]

^ Bringing Presence to the Present

[Jester4yall]

"oral sex is a dark and lonely job but somebody has to do it" - a coffee mug

[Pharm Girl]

We must NOT let our Ego get in the way of how we 'Raise Our Children!!

[Sir-Ex]

Hey that's a good one ^

[Mescalito]

'Just Do It!'

[toastyroach]

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose”
― Eckhart Tolle

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

also... I thought of this one while sitting in a jail cell, over-hearing a conversation from some crazy bastard talking to someone else about how he robbed and armored car and watched his friends face get blown off...

"the *only* difference between the wise-man and the fool.... is that one knows how much he can learn from the other"

[Sir-Ex]

"Cook it slow and low and it'll be better in the end. I mean unless you're cooking a steak but you're not cooking a steak in this you're cooking like a chicken or something. No like a roast chicken. Yeah you put some potatoes in there and stuff. Yeah. Fine. Well no take the lid off at the end and turn it up to crisp the skin. Yeah you could glaze it now and get a nice flavour on there, well.. no it's not crucial but yeah I suppose it would be better if that's what you like.... well.. if you don't like chicken then make a steak in which case the temperature and time is based on your own preference. Christ. Fine new proverb: just do what you want but leave me the fuck alone."

[toastyroach]

Hey pharm girl, whats the deer tribe? I was under a reiki based meditative hypnosis and saw my spirit animal... It is a deer.... So now im curious?

[Sir-Ex]

Hey man pro-tip that scatter told me about - you shouldn't talk so openly about what your spirit animal is.

[toastyroach]

lol my whole life is pretty much already on here everything but my cty mugshot

[toastyroach]

To evolve your conciousness; first stop being stuck in thought and instead focus on thinking about thought.... Then think about thinking about thought; then recurse until you can escape thought completly for periods of time, and instead start becoming aware... Awakened to your own consciousness; your soul, the true and only Present Moment... This to me is the goal of all religious texts and defines spirituality. -me

[Buds Bundy]

you're damned if you do and damned if you dont

[Buds Bundy]

opinions are like assholes
they all stink

[my_scatterheart]

"..grasp everything that we may encounter according to its particular intensity without worrying much about how long it will last." getting back into rilke