Principe Institute, The
Sprinkling Love: Understanding True Love
Sprinkling Love: Understanding True Love
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"Just as those who catch sight of Glaucus - a dead fisherman, according to Greek myth, who had been turned, underwater, into a hybrid god of the sea, covered with aquatic debris - would no longer easily see his original nature because some of the old parts of his body have been broker off and the others have been ground down and thoroughly maimed by the waves, at the same time, as other things have grown on him - shells, seaweed, and rocks - so that he resembles any beast rather than what was by nature, so too, we see the soul in such a condition because of countless evils.
"The answer is a kind of intellectual odyssey, a spiritual wandering or quest undertaken by an open-minded person looking for an acquisition of knowledge that reveals our true nature." (The Republic by Socrates)
Rousseau stated: "It is no light undertaking for man to separate himself what is original to what is artificial... it is hard to judge ourselves objectively."
How are we to change? Perhaps by a certain kind of rapturous illumination, just as Rousseau found it in his own heart by knowing thyself. He wrote: "The principle is freedom....it is a "purely spiritual fact... born free, the human being is everywhere in chains...it is not authorized by natural law... Evil is a product of society."
An intelligent person will find a way to their inner self by looking beyond the dirt and debris deposited by society and learning about True Love. Casper Sean Principe
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