hi guys, just me popping in with another perspective on our previous conversation on ambivalence.
Something my brother posted on his facebook: "Ambivalence is a sacred emotion" Martin Smith He goes on to say, "There is a widespread need in contemporary spirituality to find ways of praying and engaging with God, our selves, and one another that have room for simultaneous contradictions, the experience of opposite emotions. We need to find the sacredness in living the tensions and to admit how unsacred, how disconnecting and profane, are the attempts at praying and living while suppressing half of the stuff that fascinates or plagues us." I would also expand this idea to include atheists as well. Spirituality is an inner journey of the human spirit which can be engaged by atheists as well as those believing in God. Sacredness need not be limited to the belief in God. There is a sacredness at the heart of life, consciousness, our humanity, and the universe that we need to cherish and foster. Sacredness and spirit are human qualities as well as divine. Atheists celebrate the human aspect, theists celebrate the divine. Martin Smith's beautiful observation applies to both it seems to me.
