What is it to be fully and positively human?

Introduction to – ‘1000 WAYS OF CELEBRATING THE HUMAN SPIRIT’

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.‘Animated’ racehorse by photographer Eadweard Muybridge -  Source WikiPedia

Celebrating the human spirit is positive, and anyway it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

In celebrating the human spirit we can also enjoy humour that is made possible from our foolish ways. Humour is a balm and gives us experience and healing that’s a bit like art or true spirituality.

What matters is whether we are fair, kind, creative, truth-telling and wise. Personally I don’t care whether a person is an atheist or religious.  What good things they produce is what matters.

Why 1000 ways?  Well there are many paths to the top of a mountain, but only one summit.

We either believe in a unitive force behind the universe, of which we are all one infinitesimal part, or we believe that chaos reigns supreme.  It doesn’t matter what we believe – what matters is what we do with what we believe.

We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thoughts.  With our thoughts, we make our world.  (Buddha)

4th July 2009

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INTRODUCTION:

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” – Aristotle, in The Metaphysics.

Celebrating the good things about the human spirit is positive – at the very least it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness!

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I have found no better representation of my combined interests – Art: Science: Education: Photography etc – than Muybridge’s magnificent horse ‘animation’  .    I reflect on it HERE.

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In celebrating the human spirit we can also enjoy humour, made possible from our ‘foolish ways’. Humour is a balm that gives us experience and healing that’s a bit like art, or true spirituality, or carnivals.  Why does you work?  It release stress – and makes us whole again.

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What matters most is whether we are fair, kind, creative, truth-telling and wise.  Such virtues define the depth of our humanity, regardless of belief systems.

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Personally therefore I don’t care whether a person is an atheist or a religionist.  What ‘good things’ each person produces is what matters.  Regrettably many religions and belief systems don’t lead to light and love because they are corrupted with hypocrisy, manipulation and fundamentalism and a host of such curses.  The best of religion is however love and light – you’ll find it beneath the dung-heap of man-made distortions!

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Why 1000 ways?  Well there are many paths to the top of a mountain – but only one summit.

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We either believe in a unitive force behind the universe, of which we are all one infinitesimal part, or we believe that chaos reigns supreme.  It doesn’t matter what we believe – what matters is what we do with what we believe.

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WHAT ARE WE?

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“We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thoughts.  With our thoughts, we make our world”. – Buddha

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We are a manifestation of energy – or if you prefer we are each a large bunch of atoms through which the life-force flows.

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Updated 20th Aug 2009 – NB – All the newest posts are below this continuously evolving ‘Introduction’