metaphysics
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The Foundations of Love: A Journey Through Mystery, Privacy, and Separation
abstraction, advaita vedanta, anxiety, art, artificial intelligence, birds, Buddhism, Catholic, Christ, Christian, christianity, cognitive science, consciousness, depression, epistemology, essay, Essays, faith, free will, god, intelligence, Jesus, Kant, learning, life, loss, love, mathematics, meaning, meditation, mental health, meta-learning, metaphysics, mindfulness, music, mysticism, nature, perfectionism, philosophy, philosophy of science, physics, poem, poems, poetry, prayer, psychology, reality, relationships, religion, science, self, self-awareness, self-help, self-knowledge, song, spirituality, tao, taoism, time, trinity“In order to have love, you must have separation. In order to have separation, you must have privacy. In order to have privacy, there must be mystery. In order to have mystery, there must be assertion and doubt.” This cascading truth offers a profound insight into the architecture of love, tracing its roots through interdependent…
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by Mark Tracy Why do same-sized objects that are farther away appear smaller? Is it a consequence of the laws of physics, or is it an accident of my perceptual processing? Or is it impossible for me to know either way? A naive response is that farther objects appear smaller because the light traveling from…
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DissectionGod gave himself up to our dissection.An ultimate openness; a kenosis.“Leaves don’t exist as such”—sure.But can there be such a house with no foundation?Can there be haecceity all the way down?Things evolve at random when there’s nothing at stake;but what strange trajectories mine have!And when does the bread I eat become me?Where does it become…
The Trinitarian Mystery 