From Jan Kersschot's 'Coming Home' (p. 49)
Cf also Wilber on translation/transformation ('One Taste' February) and Simone Weil passim.
Religions often act as a way of creating meaning for the separate self or to give answers to our fears. Religion offers myths and stories that help the personality to make sense of everyday life or explain certain issues. However, this doesn't necessarily help us in discovering our true nature. Rather it consoles the personality, fortifies the self in its existence as a separate entity ...
The problem with the quest for the Ultimate is that, in the end, we will personalize it ...
Similarly philosophy also promotes the ego ... The personality learns to translate human life into the terms of a new language ...
Cf also Wilber on translation/transformation ('One Taste' February) and Simone Weil passim.
Religions often act as a way of creating meaning for the separate self or to give answers to our fears. Religion offers myths and stories that help the personality to make sense of everyday life or explain certain issues. However, this doesn't necessarily help us in discovering our true nature. Rather it consoles the personality, fortifies the self in its existence as a separate entity ...
The problem with the quest for the Ultimate is that, in the end, we will personalize it ...
Similarly philosophy also promotes the ego ... The personality learns to translate human life into the terms of a new language ...
