Hari
Om
Each 'Choose-day' we will investigate the process by
which we can reassess our activity and interaction with the world of plurality
and become more congruent within our personality.
A matter of choice from the Christian perspective;
We humans belong to both
realms, the realm of the senses and a realm that goes beyond them. This
stretches us. To avoid the tension of this stretching process we are apt to
settle for half of our rightful inheritance. Still, our human birth gives us a
dual citizenship. Only by claiming both realms as home can we avoid the
polarization of our human consciousness.
Our
noblest task is to make the most of this creative tension. If we neglect what
goes beyond our senses, we sink below animals. But if we deny being animals and
neglect or reject our senses, we clip the very wings on which we are meant to
rise to higher spheres. Unless we claim our dual citizenship and are at home
with both angels and beasts we become alienated from both, alienated from what
is truly human; we become—in Christopher Fry’s apt image, “Like a half-wit
angel strapped to the back of a mule.”
