Spirituality.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Article summary:
Recovery begins when the addicted self stops acting like the highest authority. Surrender craving and rebuild with a Higher Power: whether God, Logos, or reality itself.
2.
Quote:
- David Hume.
- 1748.
From History:
Meaning:
Your confidence in an idea, whether scientific or spiritual, should rise with support, not desire.
3.
From History: born 1711
Hume teaches that belief should be earned. Do not believe nothing, and do not believe everything. Let confidence rise with evidence, logic, testing, and lived experience.
4.
Embrace play in your life. It’s not just human, it’s life. Play evolve many times on Earth in various animals. If life elsewhere follows patterns like those on Earth, play may even emerge wherever intelligence and social complexity arise.
5.
Quote:
- Michael Alan Prestwood.
From History:
Meaning:
Frameworks are human-made interpretations, but truth is measured by alignment with a reality that exists independently of them.
6.
From History: Lived from 1861 to 1925, aged 64.
Waldorf schools often use natural play spaces because Steiner’s education valued nature, sensory experience, imagination, and the development of the whole child.
7.
An agnostic who actively explores the unknown or unknowable while calibrating belief to evidence and reason.
8.
Quote:
- Michael Alan Prestwood.
- 2018.
From History:
Meaning:
Ethical life is a disciplined journey of seeking truth, cultivating honor, and reducing unnecessary harm while striving toward layered flourishing.
9.
From History: A good life is a balanced life.
Stop trying to force the river. Look to the way of nature. Spirituality is learning to move with it—softly enough to bend, clearly enough to endure.
10.
An agnostic who withholds certainty about the unknown or unknowable but does not actively explore those questions.
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