what I'm learning from King Lear
It is not right to urge one who loves you to justify their love by elaborating their reasons for loving you. This only leads to misunderstanding and difficulty. Faithfulness is the greatest measure of love.
The faithful fool, more than any other companion, is wiser than I, who am only waiting to learn what it is that the fool has to teach me by staying at my side.
I think that I really am a King Lear, because I pass judgment on people too quickly and for the wrong reasons. What I must learn to do is to listen to and understand people.
I love what I am not because I wish to become that which I am not. This is why I believe I am a Christian... because man is less than God, but strives to become like God.
One of the best warnings I've ever been given, in learning Christianity, is not to forget that God is a man, not in any abstract sense. Man is created in the image of God, Who is the absolute Man, the form of Man, the original mould from Whom we have fallen. It was a man at a bible study, an Orthodox Christian, who said this, when I was speaking on behalf of the Ontological argument. Swedenborg reminded me of it in "The Divine Love and Wisdom."
God is the Fool to Mankind's King Lear, and only a few can understand when the Fool tells Lear in all absurdity, "You are a fool, like me..." because God has said to us "I am a man, like you."
The faithful fool, more than any other companion, is wiser than I, who am only waiting to learn what it is that the fool has to teach me by staying at my side.
I think that I really am a King Lear, because I pass judgment on people too quickly and for the wrong reasons. What I must learn to do is to listen to and understand people.
I love what I am not because I wish to become that which I am not. This is why I believe I am a Christian... because man is less than God, but strives to become like God.
One of the best warnings I've ever been given, in learning Christianity, is not to forget that God is a man, not in any abstract sense. Man is created in the image of God, Who is the absolute Man, the form of Man, the original mould from Whom we have fallen. It was a man at a bible study, an Orthodox Christian, who said this, when I was speaking on behalf of the Ontological argument. Swedenborg reminded me of it in "The Divine Love and Wisdom."
God is the Fool to Mankind's King Lear, and only a few can understand when the Fool tells Lear in all absurdity, "You are a fool, like me..." because God has said to us "I am a man, like you."