The whole truth and
nothing but the truth: If I am correct that the cause is as deep as I say it is then I have to forgive in proportion:
just because another is made aware of his cause does not remove him from being
its effect. Here, if I don’t find
myself wrong at the moment I cast blame on another, do I only fail to reveal my
own deep cause? If I do, can I forgive myself by the same awareness? … And why
isn’t awareness itself sufficient to correct my behavior? The dominance reflex keeps us stupid,
especially when it is responsible for the truth-event. Is it really our truth if it is triggered by something other than intelligence? Can it be an
understanding of my whole anatomy to find
the unintelligent reflex of
dominating by truths itself dominated by animal behavior? Do we need
the expense? Is it only wasted on gratification? Or do we simply fail to
value clarity to the point of sufficiency?
A valuable book, A Human Strategy, aphorism 387
387 A valuable book may be torn to pieces without diminishing the human spirit, just so long as the words have already been read and understood. To feel the loss of the book — at its material destruction, even though one had already digested its contents fully and had aligned oneself toward its overall direction — is evidence that one values the non-human being over human becoming , the static thing over the dynamic process . In response to the fear of our unknowable future we would rather freeze ourselves into a single stage of growth at the expense of the entire metamorphosis. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism