*Ambivalence* is a state of having simultaneous, conflicting feelings toward a person or thing. How does he arrive at a sacred emotion? Allan
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Mardi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- ( ) I_D Allan If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
