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Date Posted: 09:44:25 02/17/06 Fri
Author: 23
Subject: Re: fire and spirituality
In reply to: chrys 's message, "fire and spirituality" on 03:41:02 02/17/06 Fri

A Confucian saying (quoted in one of my favorite books, Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson) that is somewhat relevant to this discussion:

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

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[> Re: fire and spirituality -- 23, 09:56:53 02/17/06 Fri [1]

That book, The Diamond Age, is largely concerned with how one would cultivate this fiery spirit and depth of character that we're trying to describe. I would highly recommend it to anyone. Here's another quote from said book that has some relevance here:

"As far as laws of probability, they can not be broken, any more than any other mathematical principle. But laws of physics and mathematics are like coordinate system that runs in only one dimension. Perhaps there is another dimension perpendicular to it, invisible to those laws of physics, describing the same things with different rules, and those rules are written in our hearts, in a deep place where we can not go and read them except in our dreams"

Here's the book, if anyone's interested (I just finished re-reading it a week or two ago, which is why it's on my mind so much):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553380966/sr=8-1/qid=1140187978/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5755067-9945627?%5Fencoding=UTF8

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