Praying With Heschel
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Quote from p. 206, The Wisdom of Heschel,
"To escape from the mean and penurious [competitions],
from calculating and scheming [WinLose Gaming],
is at time the parching [integrative healthy] desire
of [ecopolitical LeftBrain Dominant] man [sic]...
Prayer [RightBrain ecoconsciousness] clarifies
our [ego/ecotherapeutic] hope and intentions.
It helps us discover our true [maturing polypathic] aspirations,
the [monoculturing] pangs we ignore,
the [multicultural] longings we forget
[to expand our ego's monocultural identity].
It is an act of self[ego]-purification...
It [regeneratively] teaches us what [both Earth and Ego] aspire to,
implants in us the ideals we [DNA/RNA health-wealth encrypted] ought
to cherish
[with even more endo/ecto-symbiotic moral integrity
of self-optimizing ego-health
as Earth's perduring regenerative wealth]."
[Sorry, Abraham,
my LeftBrain always has to have the last bracketed word.]
No worries.
Enjoy your self-and-other perpetuating Sabbath.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017
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