unconditional is unconditional is unconditional


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Posted by johnboy on September 21, 1999 at 14:28:23:


unconditional is unconditional is unconditional

per Viktor Frankl, meaning will either endure the fact that millions perished in the Holocaust and other 20th Century abominations or will collapse in the face of the suffering of one innocent child

surrender, unconditionally, to the claims you feel truth, beauty, justice/goodness and love making on you

there is something within us, always choosing a fundamental attitude toward uncertain reality

even, if as nihilists, we choose nonsupposition and nonassertion, we have chosen and have aligned our existential compasses with the magnetic south of no-meaning

especially as theists, in choosing a hermeneutic with life-affirming presuppositions, we have chosen and have aligned our existential compasses with the magnetic north of meaning

that this compass exists, along with meaning's polarities, arouses our suspicions

the very second that the needle of our existential compass quivers, there is a rudimentary stirring of existential trust within and it doesn't matter with which pole it aligns, for in the very process of aligning it has somehow chosen unconditional trust, even if only in itself

it is this unconditional trust which we might nurture and then leverage toward transcendence, toward unconditional truth, beauty and goodness, toward unconditional love

may be that a nihilist who loves, so very radically and paradoxically unconditionally, is the closest of all to pure Unconditional Love

may be that the mystic in the Darkest Night has been transformed in the very same way and is radically but not paradoxically, the closest of all to pure Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love seems to be coming at us from every direction, hounding us all, and the lesson?

Surrender!




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