The Creative Process Blog

The word ‘beyond’ is primary to my spiritual thinking: the Infinite cannot be grasped; God is beyond any and all thoughts; there is no idea that contents the intensity by which I know; . . . joy, joy, joy.

Humility is more than saying, “I am not adequate,” or “Who I am is not suitable.” Humility is staying open to ‘profound knowing’ even when there is an “infinite, qualitative difference.”

Søren Kierkegaard said that faith is after “infinite resignation”, requiring radical commitment. When we take God as our measure, an infinite qualitative difference falls upon us, and then we live as suprahumans, individualizing divine transcendence. As early Christians wrote, “The Son of God became man, that we might become God.”

Humanity has this evolutionary task to go ‘beyond the human’ to the God/human. Dialogue becomes for us our collective vocation, the process of liberating wisdom among ourselves . . . on a transcultural basis, celebrating the diversity of the One.

We are called to be solitary educators . . . who stand out from the crowd in radical freedom and responsibility. A Collective Ego is not adequate for the world to come to potential greatness . . . for realizing the Unique, historic, and unrepeatable. Subordination is not a basis for a community; it is a basis for a ‘crowd state of mediocrity’; only freedom ‘beyond necessity’ creates communion within the One.

QUOTE SØREN KIERKEGAARD
http://www.ccel.org/k/kierkegaard/untruth/untruth.htm
“The crowd is untruth. There is therefore no one who has more contempt for what it is to be a human being than those who make it their profession to lead the crowd. Let someone, some individual human being, certainly, approach such a person, what does he care about him; that is much too small a thing; he proudly sends him away; there must be at least a hundred. And if there are thousands, then he bends before the crowd, he bows and scrapes; what untruth! No, when there is an individual human being, then one should express the truth by respecting what it is to be a human being; and if perhaps, as one cruelly says, it was a poor, needy human being, then especially should one invite him into the best room, and if one has several voices, he should use the kindest and friendliest; that is the truth. When on the other hand it was an assembly of thousands or more, and “the truth” became the object of balloting, then especially one should godfearingly - if one prefers not to repeat in silence the Our Father: deliver us from evil - one should godfearingly express, that a crowd, as the court of last resort, ethically and religiously, is the untruth, whereas it is eternally true, that everyone can be the one. This is the truth.”

To the Single One

The word ‘beyond’ is primary to my spiritual thinking: the Infinite cannot be grasped; God is beyond any and all thoughts; there is no idea that contents the intensity by which I know; . . . joy, joy, joy.

Humility is more than saying, “I am not adequate,” or “Who I am is not suitable.” Humility is staying open to ‘profound knowing’ even when there is an “infinite, qualitative difference.”

Søren Kierkegaard said that faith is after “infinite resignation”, requiring radical commitment. When we take God as our measure, an infinite qualitative difference falls upon us, and then we live as suprahumans, individualizing divine transcendence. As early Christians wrote, “The Son of God became man, that we might become God.”

Humanity has this evolutionary task to go ‘beyond the human’ to the God/human. Dialogue becomes for us our collective vocation, the process of liberating wisdom among ourselves . . . on a transcultural basis, celebrating the diversity of the One.

We are called to be solitary educators . . . who stand out from the crowd in radical freedom and responsibility. A Collective Ego is not adequate for the world to come to potential greatness . . . for realizing the Unique, historic, and unrepeatable. Subordination is not a basis for a community; it is a basis for a ‘crowd state of mediocrity’; only freedom ‘beyond necessity’ creates communion within the One.

QUOTE SØREN KIERKEGAARD
http://www.ccel.org/k/kierkegaard/untruth/untruth.htm
“The crowd is untruth. There is therefore no one who has more contempt for what it is to be a human being than those who make it their profession to lead the crowd. Let someone, some individual human being, certainly, approach such a person, what does he care about him; that is much too small a thing; he proudly sends him away; there must be at least a hundred. And if there are thousands, then he bends before the crowd, he bows and scrapes; what untruth! No, when there is an individual human being, then one should express the truth by respecting what it is to be a human being; and if perhaps, as one cruelly says, it was a poor, needy human being, then especially should one invite him into the best room, and if one has several voices, he should use the kindest and friendliest; that is the truth. When on the other hand it was an assembly of thousands or more, and “the truth” became the object of balloting, then especially one should godfearingly - if one prefers not to repeat in silence the Our Father: deliver us from evil - one should godfearingly express, that a crowd, as the court of last resort, ethically and religiously, is the untruth, whereas it is eternally true, that everyone can be the one. This is the truth.”

To the Single One