It is no wonder why the Lord said, “Man does not live by Bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” This tells me that words are internally constitutive of the human person. And language game is the centre stage of the world field; where in words seem to have manifold meanings. Now eating is not the only activity of the human person; while he eats, he does many other simultaneous functions – the hand movements are directed by the commands that brain gives, he thinks (as 60,000 thoughts emerges in the mind of a normal person), even there are different ways of eating too – chewing, relishing, swallowing, etc.
The other day I received a reply to my mail from Fr. Ivo. I had asked his opinions about what to do about the missed issues of certain journals. Straight away he told me – “forget about the missing issues and cancel the subscription”
This reminds me that we often try to get back what we missed in life or often speak about what we lacked or achieved in life. Just forget about the missed issues of life and heed to the missed call of conscience and resurrect to a life full of meanings to fulfill. We are just here to glimpse a little of the reality that we are here to understand a little about what we understood is the understanding of others who have gone by. We only peep through the ignited thoughts of others or rather the givenness of our contingent existence.
Climbing a mountain is yet another symbolic reality that we are endowed with a higher plane of existence – the spiritual realm. The farther you go, the more the distance from the infinite sky and you. Yet when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Hence, the going and the steps forward is necessitated to bring in the element of freedom, faith and choice. Teilhard de Chardin rightly points to our reality – we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Every day words seem a functional reality. We can make use of this reality also a fictional reality extending to them an imaginary existence. Yet the whole of my perceptions and the way of looking at things create in me metaphors, symbols and convictions. These in turn encircle the constitution of the personal being-in-the-world. The lebenswelt (the world) is further constituted by the range of our understanding of our being-with-others (manners, social upbringing, dealings, getting to know the dynamics of a crowd or a family or even the dynamics of survival), being-with-oneself (reflection, evaluation, execution, experiences and their influences, etc.), and a being-with-the beyond human comprehension (the element of the cardinal virtues- faith, hope and love.). This being-with-the-beyond-human-comprehension necessitates the search for meaning a joint venture. This dimension demonstrates the point of towards-which we are moving while taking a stand towards all that manifests itself/ themselves (Aletheia - self-manifestation or unconcealment).
Nice to go through your thoughts.
ReplyDeleteHope you would come up with such interesting things more often...