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...modern generation Kawamoto says it does not possess "the kind of heart that knows how to stare into itself and discover its own strength. Onore o shiru: to know oneself. It is essential. People today live too much by their individual desires, and so are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past. One must vow not to repeat those mistakes. Unless you know your self, you cannot make a vow that counts...
Coming to terms with nature simply means coming to terms with its neutrality, and that ultimately means coming to terms with oneself. If some "trick" was played by nuclear fission, it was people who played the trick on themselves. In a lecture to fellow scientists, Oppenheimer said, "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." Oppenheimer's presumption is that the physicists, as people, had not known sin before making the Bomb, which sounds like wishful confessing. Nature...
Summers couldn’t apply the understanding he had about anti-Semitism when it left the range of his own experience. Certainly, putting oneself in the shoes of someone whose secondary sex characteristics or skin color are different is not something one can do with an economic regression. It’s hard to have such awareness; we all make insensitive comments without meaning it, and we all take our privilege for granted at times. We learn how to treat other people with understanding only through experience...
...particularly resonant scene of modern skepticism is one in which Constantine and fellow world-saver Angie dare to question the justice of the Catholic Church’s teaching on suicide; namely, that to kill oneself shows such disrespect for God’s gift of life that one could be damned for it. Angie demands that her sister receive a Catholic burial, and the priest’s refusal is portrayed as an inflexible slavishness to an outmoded rule...
Here's some advice to the twixters from a geezer who joined the military at 17, was raising a family at 21, worked hard days, studied hard nights and built a gratifying life: self-absorption keeps one a child, and commitment to something greater than oneself leads to adulthood. A person has too many choices only if they become excuses for failing to choose, commit and grow. Select a path, and follow it diligently. Then you won't have to seek fulfillment; it will find...