Sublime

The sermon now needed to enter the personality of the listener. And Henry realized that the only key that fit the lock of individual personality was personality itself.

Il n’y a donc pas d’opposition entre souci de soi et connaissance de soi, c’est un ensemble qui forme la pratique de soi. Celle-ci devient un choix qui émerge sous la célèbre expression tekhnê tou biou, qui est à la fois un art de soi et un art de vivre 64. Alors que l’epimeleia heautou était caractérisée par l’attention portée exclusivement au soi

THE EYE OF A NEEDLE

Being in Kainchi feels like stepping back in time a thousand years. And being with Mata-ji felt like a homecoming. After the loss of my daughter, my road had been harrowing. Although nearly a decade had unfolded, I arrived with a tattered soul and a shattered heart. It wasn’t that Sri Siddhi Ma had some kind of magical powers to mend me (perhaps),

she notes that true contemplation allows her to see others “as they are related to themselves, and not to me.”

Il y a donc lieu de distinguer entre le moi et le Soi, le moi n’étant que le sujet de ma conscience, alors que le Soi est le sujet de la totalité, y compris l’inconscient. En ce sens, le Soi serait une grandeur (idéelle) qui comprend en elle le moi. Il apparaît volontiers dans l’imagination inconsciente sous l’aspect d’une personnalité supérieure o

It is the converted, baptized, ordained Augustine who confesses, “Onus mihi, oneri mihi sum”: “I am a burden to myself.”

Eros is impossible, Yannaras believes, outside of personhood, because Eros recognizes that we have our very being only in and through relationship.