Not exact matches
«The finitude
of the
human subject logically excludes access to any complete
understanding of the historical
totality,» he writes.
Every interpretation
of the meaning
of human experience, every
understanding of the world in its
totality, must by necessity start from some particular stance — or, better, must find some particular point that is taken to be
of special importance among all the events or occasions; it provides a clue to the
totality of experience.
Such a commitment to Jesus amid the claims and counterclaims
of a secular society needs to be
understood rather than disparaged, and, if possible, directed toward a larger vision
of Jesus and his message for the
totality of human life.1
But the idea
of a matter / spirit duality seems to me to be the best framework in which to
understand the
totality of human experience.
In other words, yoga can be
understood as a state
of consciousness in which the mind becomes quiet, and the
totality of the
human attains a higher state
of awareness.
But the book, in its
totality from page to page, can actually be read as much more — as a long synesthetic poem, one that imagines a shape, color, and sound for words and speaks to our profoundest
understanding of human expression.