A Quote by Timothy Morton
The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity.
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Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains humanity as humanity must, in turn, sustain nature. Rationality alone, however, cannot be our guide in the task of restoring our environment. A spiritual connection to nature must inspire the emotional commitment that is the yin, complementing the yang of intellectual understanding.
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
Your partner cannot read your mind, so talk to your partner about how you're feeling and what you need.
Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.
If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.
I think you can talk about anything if the context is correctly arranged. If you set up the context and you bring the audience along carefully enough with you, you can get them to cross the line with you. What I try to do is talk about things that bother me, and I hope that in doing so I bother other people.
In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.
The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of spiritual life is from within.
If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.
What I do is very spiritual to me. I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.
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