Facing fears

Fear of loss.

After everything's taken away,
what remains?
...freedom, clarity, a deeper truth
without superficial desire

lift your head,
if you get cut, you get cut


(image by Sally Mann)

Morality

“morality is determined by sentiment. It defines virtue to be whatever mental action or quality gives to a spectator the pleasing sentiment of approbation; and vice the contrary” (Hume, 1777)


Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment
(Schnall, Haidt, Clore & Jordan; 2008)


Disgust = irrational = moral judgement?

http://www.yourmorals.org/




"in confronting and embracing our own poverty, our own repulsion and disgust and disease – only then will we be at the starting point of reconcilation and redemption – only then will we subvert the relational holocaust, rather than perpetuate it"




(pic of St Francis of Assisi)

Acceptance

dEATH:

"Our ultimate aim shall be the construction of a craft that will convey us into death in such a way that we may, if not live, then at least persist. With famine, war, disease and asteroid impact threatening to greatly speed up the universal passage towards oblivion, mankind's sole chance of survival lies in its ability, as yet unsynthesised, to die in a new, imaginative ways. Let us deliver ourselves over utterly to death, not in desperation but rigorously, creatively eyes and mouth wide open so that they may be filled from the deep wells of the Unknown." (Manifesto of the International Necronautical Society: http://necronauts.org/)

"There are those who do not realise that one day we all must die.

But those who do realise this settle their quarrels." (Dhammapada v. 286 )

"Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village."

Put down your glass Aubrey!

picking up the pace

‘‘The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.’’

(Joseph Addison, 1672–1719, British Essayist)






(image from M Mellon:
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/m-mellon.html)