Explore
Gaia Soulmates
 Advertising keeps Gaia free! Interested in sponsoring us?

New World Creation

Posted on Mar 25th, 2008 by KevinBeck : Agapeologist KevinBeck
Those who have been required to memorize the world as it is, will never create the world as it might be.
Access_public Access: Public 2 Comments Print views (95)  
Tagged with: Creation, World, New, Memorization, Old, rote
Janet : Strategic Enthusiast
15 days later
Janet said

This makes me think of the entire bookcase full of photo albums at my mother's house. She frantically documents each moment so she can re-live them; almost as if she needs proof of the past in order to value her existance. Point, shoot, scrapbook, repeat.

I think that the act of memorization of the world is very like this. It implies staying stuck in the past with rigid views of what is possible for the future. The trick is to learn from the past, but not be bound by it.

Thanks for posting such a thought-provoking sentence.

KevinBeck : Agapeologist
15 days later
KevinBeck said

Hi Janet,
There is an odd creative tension in reembering the past, but not being stuck in it.  Author Miroslav Volf calls it “remembering rightly.”

Thanks for stopping and posting.

You have to be a Gaia member to post comments.
Login or Join now!