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Path of Beauty. Chapter 1 Meaning of Life VI

  Ila . Are my anxiety and my desire forms of Speech? Sura . They are. They appear and disappear spontaneously. Anxiety and desire are  forms of the Speech of the Will of Life, which you later elaborate in different  reflections in your Feeling and your Thinking. What questions does the jasmine  whose perfume already climbs into your eyes raise in you?

Lightnings. Navaho Prayer. "Walking in Beauty" from the Navajo Way Blessing Ceremony

 This poem is part of the Navaho Blessing ceremony. It perfectly expresses the psychological spontaneity of the people who live in the Anima Mundi. In these verses I see the fitra that the Sufis speak of, the Original Nature of the Human Soul, seductive, powerful and delicate, like the Presence of newborns.   In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind me I walk With beauty above me I walk With beauty around me I walk It has become beauty again Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body. I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me. I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me. I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me. I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful. In beauty all day long may I walk. Through the returning seasons, may I walk. On the trail marked with pollen ma...

A quick reminder about some basic concepts of general philosophy

  Ontology It answers the question: What is there? Our starting point is the human being as a living and thinking being in the world. Humans think about what there is the world and is part of their life, whether material or immaterial. We human try to give an orderly account of experience and in doing so we establish some fundamental relationships and produce objects (abstract or physical) upon which our way of life is based. These fundamental relationships and objects are what we call a particular or specific ontology. Not all societies have considered their fundamental relationships and objects in the same way. In fact, we observe that even the same society changes its ontological orders in its historical development. Epistemology It answers the questions: how do we know what is there? How could we know it? Asking such questions we begin an investigation into the processes that guide our human knowledge.  We call this research epistemology. Our thinking begi...