Advent Meditation, Saturday of the First Week of Advent

[gaudium_et_spes]

Inspired by the ever-so-awesome daniellij, I will also be running a sporadic Advent meditation series this year. I'll be using various readings or writers as my muse and then going from there. It's been far too long.

Walker Percy (Lost in the Cosmos) writes:"You have seen yourself a thousand times in the mirror, face to face. No sight is more

Comments

[chuckro]

My train of thought is much more secular (obviously), but I'd wonder: You see yourself/know yourself constantly and continuously, but from a unique angle. You can't accurately compare yourself to other people, because you can't see yourself the same way you can see (hear, touch, etc.) everyone else on earth. You can only catch fleeting glimpses of you "comparable" self in mirrors, pictures or recordings. When you try to "size up yourself" you faced with the dual issue of only having some of the normal cues you can work from (it's not like you can verballing interact with yourself, after all) and trying to reconcile the fragments you're getting with the alternate view of yourself you typically have.

[gaudium_et_spes]

You'd probably like Lost in the Cosmos. A little too early 1980s, but otherwise an interesting book.