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Post by heartfelt7 on Apr 2, 2012 10:35:07 GMT -6
Contemplating Symbolism
Would we fall from the grace of God if we turned
from the symbols that we place on Him in our minds,
Symbols that would bind Him exclusively to ourselves
to one name, one culture, one people?
Perhaps it is we who are bound to a savage quest for eternal life,
freed only by the Love that lives eternally in the Heart.
If God is indeed everywhere, then He must live in every Heart
shining the Light of divinity in every man.
Perhaps in turning from the symbols in the mind
to the reality in the Heart we can see this Light,
And be unable to herd others into box cars,
hack them with machetes, or atomize them with bombs.
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Post by moseley on Apr 17, 2012 22:50:20 GMT -6
if you think about it, people have just about given everything that occurs in everyday life a rigid structure and form where both symbolic value and convention kill the potential of what something really could be and instead, leave a very narrow path that something must follow out to its final extinction...kinda like watching a Panda Bear only be able to live off of bamboo and you have to wonder at what generation will they rip a deer apart or, drop off the life cycle forever and the reasons for this "evolution" of adaptive behaviour also gives us cause to explain so many more difficult things with the only pocketable definition we can, and that is the name of god in some assignment as we often forget, we are all the parrots in the cage protesting to a potential customer why we are special and inclusively knowledgeable in what would please them and get us the hell out of that place....only thing is, most parrots that come with a cage, they go with a cage and remain with a cage...what if that parrot could fly out of its cage? Considering the environment it might be living in might be less than tropical and somehow there is an owl high in the trees waiting for them, but it is not different really, how artificially we have made this whole facade to be that if we did slip out of it, we might well be in for a doozy of a time adapting to everything we did not realize we know our own name by.
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Post by phantasm on Feb 23, 2013 21:13:52 GMT -6
The power of flight
has always been a symbol of a liberated mind
that would have nothing better than kick the behind
of a repressive or ignorant person. Even the best of us need symbols.
The trick is not to be married to your symbols so much
that you can't understand others' points of view
knowledge is the ticket to board the train called the Oriental Express
Some people just don't have the drive or the wherewithal
to learn and love the learning about the Other...
They just want to stay home and keep you by their side
so they don't have to feel so alone.
There is an entire world out there to explore.
But some people take one look at the world and only deplore it.
Some of us just can't get enough of the poetry and lore in it!
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Post by anirbas on Feb 26, 2013 11:55:48 GMT -6
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Post by heartfelt7 on Mar 3, 2013 9:34:07 GMT -6
I really like the different takes on symbolism here. Each mind has to use it, so there's nothing wrong with that. I guess I was taking aim at those who want their religious symbolism to be the truth for everyone else. I really take exception to anyone owning the truth. We each should be free to form our own symbols and find our own truth.
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