Sunday, August 8, 2010

Grace Comes to the Wave

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave
realizes that it is water. At that moment,
all fear of death disappears.
                    --Thich Nhat Hanh

2 comments:

  1. Grace = enlightenment and/or absence of fear of death? I'll have to think on this one; it might be a little too Eastern-mystical for me.

    What about "Amazing Grace" for insight into grace? (Am not being facetious...)

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  2. Follow-up #2: "...As Kierkegaard makes clear, what he is counseling is not “to sit in the anxiety of death, day in and day out, listening for the repetition of the eternal.” What is rather being called for is a rigorous and activist conception of faith that proclaims itself into being at each instant without guarantee or security and which abides with the infinite demand of love..."

    This makes sense to me (okay, it's more about faith than grace but...) as does a great deal of the article from which I took it (link below). Kierkegaard usually overwhelms me, and I have other objections to him, but this... well, it 'works' on some other level.


    From http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/the-rigor-of-love/?ref=opinion&nl=opinion&emc=tya1.

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