Tag: Presence
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Christianity Beyond Symbols – 2: The Veil and the Light — Law, Symbol, and the Coming of Presence
“The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ,that we might be justified by faith.But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.”— Galatians 3:24–25 “We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.”— 2 Corinthians 3:18 The…
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Living in the Light of Being — 7:Joy Without Object — The Peace of Recognition
Not all joy has a cause.Not all peace comes from resolution.There is a kind of joy that does not arise from anything —a joy without object, without condition, without origin in time. It appears quietly, often when nothing special is happening.It does not surge. It does not demand.It simply shines —not because something has gone…
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Living in the Light of Being — 5:The Radiance of Gesture — Form as the Appearance of Being
Not all beauty is art.Not all clarity takes the shape of words or music.Sometimes it moves in silence — across a face, through the hand, in the arc of a reaching arm, or in the stillness of the body at rest. These are gestures — not signs of meaning, not tools of expression, but the…
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Living in the Light of Being — 1: A Presence Without Name: The One Who No Longer Seeks
There are people who do not fit.They do not rush. They do not strive.They do not promote themselves or defend a position.They speak little, but when they do, their words feel clean — not heavy, not persuasive, not personal. They may not call themselves spiritual, or philosophical, or anything at all.But in them, something has…
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In the Time of Unveiling – 3: The Courage to Endure — Waiting in the Time of Transition
We are living in a time between.The old structures have lost their power — they no longer guide, no longer persuade, no longer hold.The new has not yet fully appeared. Or if it has, it appears quietly, without institutions, without name, without clarity. This is not just a historical gap.It is a metaphysical waiting —…
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In the Time of Unveiling – 2: Between Nostalgia and Invention — The Two Illusions of Escape
When a worldview collapses, the first instinct is to escape. Some try to go back — to recover the world before the rupture, to restore the lost forms, to rebuild what once gave meaning.Others try to go forward — to invent something radically new, to design new values, new identities, new worlds beyond the ruins.…
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The Truth of Eros – 4: Love Is Not a Feeling — Presence, Fidelity, and the Seeing of the Real
Love, we are told, is a feeling. A high, a warmth, an affection. It comes, it grows, it fades. We fall into it. We fall out of it.We measure it by intensity, by closeness, by how often we feel “seen” or “safe.” And so love becomes fragile.When the feelings shift — as they inevitably do…
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The Wound of Time –4: The Joy Beyond Time — Freedom from Progress and Regret
We are taught to see joy as something rare, fleeting, or earned. It comes, we are told, when things go well — when the work pays off, the path becomes clear, the healing takes hold. Joy is imagined as a moment at the far end of progress, the prize after suffering, the reward of time’s…
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Male & Female 6: Man in Flight — Desire, Power, and the Refusal of Responsibility
If the modern woman’s crisis is often rooted in the fear of form, the modern man’s crisis is found in the fear of weight — of responsibility, permanence, and the call to be more than what he desires. Both are symptoms of the same metaphysical rupture: the severing of the self from Being. But while…
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