Thank-you for this invitation to view a weaving of the threads of beliefs into a fabric of our lives. This metaphor offers such a rich potential for new opportunities. I am curious how moments emerge in our relationships when we need to wrap the fabric tightly around us and other times when we can loosen our grip, and even gaze upon the space between the threads to imagine and create new patterns. How much would you consider this space between threads as space for imagination?
The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.
Beautiful post Julia, and I too so enjoy weaving threads with you and appreciate your thread (s). I was just reading your earlier comment where you used the word unravel and that got me too thinking about “ravelling” and wondering what kind of process ravelling is. I wonder if ravelling and unravelling are both important, as the knots we tie perhaps happened during some exploratory ravelling that were the best we could do at the time.
All beliefs must be re-examined. Do you see that the ones you decide to examine, while they may be on the surface the ones that you "believe" no longer serve you, are actually the ones your ego (for lack of a better word) can afford to release. The ones that you decide are too important -- that they still serve you -- that the "are who you are" -- those are the ones that are probably embedded lies. Re-examine ALL your beliefs if you're actually looking for liberation into authentic self-ness.
Beyond belief
Thank-you for this invitation to view a weaving of the threads of beliefs into a fabric of our lives. This metaphor offers such a rich potential for new opportunities. I am curious how moments emerge in our relationships when we need to wrap the fabric tightly around us and other times when we can loosen our grip, and even gaze upon the space between the threads to imagine and create new patterns. How much would you consider this space between threads as space for imagination?
The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful post Julia, and I too so enjoy weaving threads with you and appreciate your thread (s). I was just reading your earlier comment where you used the word unravel and that got me too thinking about “ravelling” and wondering what kind of process ravelling is. I wonder if ravelling and unravelling are both important, as the knots we tie perhaps happened during some exploratory ravelling that were the best we could do at the time.
All beliefs must be re-examined. Do you see that the ones you decide to examine, while they may be on the surface the ones that you "believe" no longer serve you, are actually the ones your ego (for lack of a better word) can afford to release. The ones that you decide are too important -- that they still serve you -- that the "are who you are" -- those are the ones that are probably embedded lies. Re-examine ALL your beliefs if you're actually looking for liberation into authentic self-ness.