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think a little bit about your own belief, you quickly realize that you believe quite a lot. You have | think a little bit about your own belief, you quickly realize that you believe quite a lot. You have | ||
your ideas about what humans are. You have your preferences. You do your choices about what is important | your ideas about what humans are. You have your preferences. You do your choices about what is important | ||
- | to you, and you have ideas why it is important to you. | + | to you, and you have ideas why it carries meaning. |
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All humans have their ideas about community, about the role of humans today. We all have our idea | All humans have their ideas about community, about the role of humans today. We all have our idea | ||
- | about why we do what we do, and why we want others to behave in a particular way. We as pursue | + | about why we do what we do, and why we want others to behave in a particular way. We all pursue |
happiness of some kind. | happiness of some kind. | ||
Even the worst people in the world follow some ethical behavior. Even those who cause a lot of trouble | Even the worst people in the world follow some ethical behavior. Even those who cause a lot of trouble | ||
- | to others have ideas about what they believe to be full of honour or full of excellence. And if you | + | and pain to others have ideas about what they believe to be full of honour or full of excellence. And if you |
dig a little deeper into this you find a belief system behind it. Everyone | dig a little deeper into this you find a belief system behind it. Everyone | ||
- | has some type of belief! | + | has some type of belief |
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- | But w | + | |
+ | But what is our belief based on? What is behind it? Is it consistent or full of contradictions? | ||
+ | And is it linked to reality? What type of reality? Here, we quickly get into the full discussion of | ||
+ | our knowledge and ideas about our world today. What is it that we know for sure? What is it that | ||
+ | we think is true? And what do we believe? What do we base our life on? | ||
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- | ** ...** | + | ** Exciting Journey |
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+ | Life can be an exciting journey. It can be extremely exciting to explore faith, to explore | ||
+ | the ideas we have about our world and our life! | ||
+ | Different people do this exploration in different ways. The artist, for example, he explores | ||
+ | ideas by creating art. When he works on a piece of art, he explores his senses, his hands, his | ||
+ | mind, his ability to create. A particular part of his mind and heart and body is involved, and | ||
+ | the result of his reflection is the painting or sculpture which reflects reality, emotions, | ||
+ | beauty, ideas and perception! | ||
+ | When we think and talk about faith and life, this is another type of exploration. Humans are | ||
+ | given a mind to think, to discuss, to reason, to argue. We are given language to communicate, | ||
+ | to express our feelings, our plans, our desires, our decisions. With all of this we can and | ||
+ | should explore faith and life today! All of this is a part of it. | ||
+ | Let us go through the layers of faith and knowledge in the new year. Let us move into the | ||
+ | layers of perception, into life itself, into reasoning and practice. All of it has its role and | ||
+ | importance in the deep quest for meaning, which drives mankind since its beginning! We are | ||
+ | looking forward to a fantastic year 2018 ... | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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