Re: Mind's Eye Are You A Human Being ?

The enduring desire to see outside oneself, the resulting interpersonal
dialogue with other beings, nature, creatures of many sorts, chronology,
and reflections of that story back into our own essence becoming more.
Vision, pathmaking, seeking, with potentially unlimited potential (to be
circular).

On 8/10/2012 4:05 AM, Vam wrote:
> How exactly do you specify that ? Being Human, that is...
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> Put aside the biologist telling you of your classification or the
> scientist detailing the features... What exactly tells that you are a
> human being, apart from the rest of the animal kind ?
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> I know it is easy to go frivolous, or quote the millions of texts in the
> library. But what does it mean to you, that you can vouch for, pointedly ?
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> What sets me apart is my capacity to know, to engage single-minded in
> that process of discovery of what I seek to know, one after another, and
> to be able to tell myself what I do know, its how and why, and share it
> with others. The knowing leads me everywhere... into the universe, the
> earth, environment, other beings and things, language, arts, economics,
> values system, and myself.
>
> The next important capacity is to love other people, not just my own
> offspring, not just for people's utility value or until they are useful
> to me, but precisely because of the lifetime of knowing they represent,
> and for the values they embody on account of what they know. In fact,
> love isn't just directed towards individuals... it invariably includes
> the "good," life and growth, light, greenery, panorama, beauty, truth,
> honesty, freedom, expression... and much of what the universe itself is.
>
> What else or more, as it is with you ?
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