Skip to main content

Living in the Exceeding

 


In everything surrounding the individual, there is something that exceeds his or her own individuality.
Every time an individual questions their experience, they transcend within this exceeding.

Questioning about good is exceeding, questioning about evil is exceeding, questioning about life is exceeding, questioning about death is exceeding, questioning about consciousness is exceeding, questioning about sensibility is exceeding, questioning about silence is exceeding. 
Everything that entails questioning implies growth into the exceeding.

There are people who are aware of this exceeding, who feel it and are elevated to a superior state of consciousness and heart. Yet, there are many others who are not, because they do not question with metaphysical interest—an interest in transcending the material, which is utterly inadequate to respond to the sense of existence.

When an individual begins to feel the exceeding, they become caught in it. It allows them to recognize themselves within it. The individual is drawn to a broader horizon, one they are about to inhabit. They perceive it—perceive it through what is happening around them, through the way their life’s horizon is changing. It becomes a sort of augmented dimensionality that they catch sight of in their proximity.

The individual becomes caught in a "thereness" they sense from many signs, and above all, from a voice within the heart.

The individual lives in the saeculum, yet at the same time strongly feels that they belong to a different horizon—one vaster than the one they currently inhabit.

As Saint Augustine explains Et cum te primum cognovi, tu assumpsisti me ut viderem esse, quod viderem, et nondum me esse, qui viderem "And when I first came to know you, you lifted me up so that I might see the being I could see, though I was not yet the being I could see"

If we are to find the proper words to describe it, we could say that the exceeding has no appearance, no form, and is no entity (ὄν). It is only what is feelable, perceivable, and "heartable"—that is, realizable within the heart.



Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Fasting to reconnect your "Self" to your body

If there is a discrepancy between yourself and the body, between what you are and what you don't feel you are in your body, then fast, because there is excess to remove in the body. Through the stratifications of fat, the material that alienates you is deposited in the body. Removing decades of fat you remove the "Self" from its impediments to be reconnected with the body. Start thinking about fasting and wait for the right moment. Your body has its own indicators; it will signal when it is the right time to start fasting. Fasting is not a mere physical fact. It is changing the spirit of a time that has become stranger to us and that lives in us in order to alienate us to ourselves. Impossible to fast, without implying a change of the inner spirit. Those who fasted in the Old Testament did so to invoke great changes in life. Jesus himself fasted for forty nights and forty days and after fasting he was ready and strong enough to resist the devil and was ripe for his minist...

Poetry dwells near the divine light's breath

  The comparison between poetry and divine light that we proposed HERE finds its perfect explanation in Saint Paul, Letters to the Romans I,19: τὸ γνωστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ φανερόν ἐστιν ἐν αὐτοῖς, ὁ ⸂θεὸς γὰρ αὐτοῖς ἐφανέρωσεν , what can be known of God was manifested to them (in men), indeed God manifested to them. Poetry unveils in the human being the need to be human, i.e.the need for Beauty, for feeling the Beauty in itself and with itself, and this feeling is supported by the divine light. As we are influenced by the idea of Saint Augustine of saeculum , we maintain that poetry belongs to the saeculum and therefore stops on the threshold of the divine light [ I] without crossing that threshold, but it senses the light beyond that threshold. We are taken to that threshold by the human feeling of Beauty within us that leads us up to there: up to that door that it is not possible to cross in our being human, but nevertheless, the very dwelling on that threshold is illuminated by the ve...

Similarities between Lithuanian, Sanskrit and Ancient Greek: the sigmatic future

by Fabrizio Ulivieri Lithuanian is the most archaic among all the Indo-European languages spoken today, and as a result it is very useful, indeed, indispensable in the study of Indo-European linguistics. The most important fact is that Lithuanian is not only very archaic, but still very much alive, i. e., it is spoken by about three and a half million people. It has a rich tradition in folklore, in literature, and it is used very successfully in all walks of modern life, including the most advanced scientific research. Forced by our interest for this piece of living archaism, we go deeper in our linguistic survey. One of the most noticeable similarities is the future (- sigmatic future -). Lithuanian has preserved a future tense from prehistoric times: it has one single form, e.g. kalbė-siu 'I will speak', etc. kalbė-si kalbė-s kalbė-sime kalbė-site kalbė-s This form kalbėsiu is made from the stem kalbė-(ti) 'to speak', plus the ancient stem-end...