Beautiful connection. In Greek, psyche literally meant "breath"... not as metaphor, but existentially, the animating force itself. Your framing of attention as "inhale" and surrender as "exhale" is powerful and captures the same rhythm: sort of gather & release. Ethically, it could be understood as In-taking (learning and obsorbing) and out-giving (limiting one's ego and altuissric). To hold either one too tightly is to interrupt or block the very movement that constitutes being "alive"...
Now I am thinking to expand this notion onto culture!
A "living culture" breathes: it takes in from the diversity of the past i.e., traditions, rituals, practices, influences, the fullness of what came before.. And it puts forward creative avenues for individual and community, releasing and providing what it has gathered into new forms without losing coherence. So, a living culture doesn't merely preserve or merely innovate... It pays attention to the past, lives in present and by surrenders it offers novel creative possibilities for future...
Beautiful connection. In Greek, psyche literally meant "breath"... not as metaphor, but existentially, the animating force itself. Your framing of attention as "inhale" and surrender as "exhale" is powerful and captures the same rhythm: sort of gather & release. Ethically, it could be understood as In-taking (learning and obsorbing) and out-giving (limiting one's ego and altuissric). To hold either one too tightly is to interrupt or block the very movement that constitutes being "alive"...
Now I am thinking to expand this notion onto culture!
A "living culture" breathes: it takes in from the diversity of the past i.e., traditions, rituals, practices, influences, the fullness of what came before.. And it puts forward creative avenues for individual and community, releasing and providing what it has gathered into new forms without losing coherence. So, a living culture doesn't merely preserve or merely innovate... It pays attention to the past, lives in present and by surrenders it offers novel creative possibilities for future...
I haven’t even read it yet but i was just praying about that last nite so whatever you wrote, thank you in advance for answering my prayer