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#DeadPhilosophersSociety I actually found two different copies of this at the book bazaar, this one was $.75 and a trade copy was $1.25. I left them there, but it did feel like a message. Our last read left me feeling like this would be beyond me!

‘Meeting with God does not come to man in order that he may concern himself with God, but in order that he may confirm that there is meaning in the world.‘ I sometimes wonder if that‘s why there are so many conspiracy theories about so many things nowadays. Something has to fill the meaning vacuum that opens up when God is displaced from the world. We were made for a bigger picture. We crave it. And so we draw it.

“We say 'far away'; the Zulu has for that a word which means, in our sentence form, 'There where someone cries out: "Oh mother, I am lost." ' The Fuegian soars above our analytic wisdom with a seven-syllabled word whose precise meaning is, 'They stare at one another, each waiting for the other to volunteer to do what both wish, but are not able to do.”

Every child that is coming into being rests
, like all life that is coming into being , in the womb of the great mother - the undivided primal world that proceeds form. From her too we are separated and enter into personal life , slipping free only in the dark hours to be close to her again. Night by night this happens to the healthy man. Buber 1958

0ld college notes , love this passage
#HeatofJuly #webelongtogether

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