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RE: R2R Reflections: Immense Wealth! Yet, still the "pursuit of more" ...
Thank you for investing your time in writing this response to my post @erh.germany. Before I comment, I am curious whether there was any particular part of what I have written, which prompted what you have to say here.
:) Reading your post brought this thoughts to me. Sometimes it's not a direct reference to the content of what someone publishes. I think it was the mentioning of the American Declaration which triggered me to talk about written principles. In particular the "pursuit of happiness" can be misunderstood in the way people want to live. Other than that, I think joy can be found in the most simple ways. Which, I think, was your message as well.
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I appreciate learning we agree on the value of gratitude for the simple things in life @erh.germany. In our "pursuit of happiness" ... 😊
Further, we can agree written principles can present their challenges. The older they are, the more important historically accurate context can be. Our Supreme Court, for example, spends all of their time getting this right. To the best of their ability ...
As a Christian man, however, I would never reject the written word. Since God elected to communicate with us in this manner. At the risk of being irreverent, in our modern era we might ask why we couldn't have a series of YouTube videos instead ... 😏
Seriously, I have reflected more than once over what I hold in my hand, when reading the Bible. I do not profess to be wise enough to know ...
Thanks again for sharing your perspective @erh.germany. Greetings from an international airport in the western U.S., as I wait to board a flight, with my beloved life mate, to see our children in the eastern U.S. ... 😉
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I think what I wanted to convey was that if you want to integrate the written for yourself too much and bring it into everyday life, it can often come to narrowing and disturbances, because you want to enforce the principle too much, no matter how honourable. Whenever I want to force a certain rule too much in my relationship with my son, think regulations too rigidly, try to subject what I do to a constantly recurring pattern, it rather turns into the opposite.
The scriptures, no matter whether they are the Bible or other legacies, I have noticed, are rather something in their meaning existing in the background, less that one walks with them through the front door and wants to teach it to someone who has not asked for it. The richness of meaning is rather dedicated to the unspeakable, to that which cannot be explained so precisely, if one tries it, one realizes that it does not succeed. I would therefore agree and say that written remains are valuable. Something that reads and feels right can simply be quoted and passed on in the same way. But when you try to categorize and analyze it, often only a weak version of the original comes out. I see it that scripts can inspire the artistic, which is why they are so popular. But only those who have the talent to do so are able to bring the writing light back into a writing form.
In my eyes, it has become a fashion to rattle after the valuable written traditions without reaching the depth that the creator or author reached. Particularly in the spiritual realm, the reader becomes impatient and publishes what he believes he understands as a kind of "how to..." or life instruction. The pearls want to be found in this stream of publications. ... Well, maybe that's quite good, because how else can you distinguish the beautiful from the ordinary?
Have a good time with your children.