Vows make for stability of life and put a brake on the mercurial and fickle in us. They must be taken seriously or not taken at all. But rigid commitments immaturely or prematurely entered into are sometimes better broken than kept. Sometimes, not often. Rigidity and flexibility, both physical and psychological, are values, competing values. Each deserves its due. The topic of competing values is rich and deep and insufficiently explored. More grist for the mill.
The Ambiguity of Vows
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2 responses to “The Ambiguity of Vows”
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Bill,
As always these brilliant and penetrating insights and contemplations, offered and shared. If I am convinced of nothing else, the World, and perhaps the human species is the better for *your* existence.
And now having said this, perhaps we could consider this a manifestation of how God brings mercy, wisdom and offers the aid and light we need to see through the darkness of our existence here on this plane of existence.
Thank you. -
Re-reading this post, I am put in mind of a something I noted about the contrast between the Eternal and the changing, Time, and the various ways in which all of Reality maintains some pattern, idea or symbolization of this: cycles, wheels, seasons, spinning, swirling, flux, oscillation, Yin-Yang, etc. And the deep contemplation of one seems invariably to lead one into the other, and back again.
Is this coherent?
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