Beauty is a nuanced consideration of substantiality and (if present) essentiality. Intuition is a desire for Truth. Faith is a structuring of Intuition. Hope is an acknowledgement that Faith is precarious. Intuition, Faith, Hope are touched by Beauty and specific to the individual. Within this synthesis, where individual essentiality is present alongside substantiality, Love is the result. Love is external, active; selfless compassion that works toward Justice.
I am at a loss how to say this any better. The survival of our species and the health of our planet depends upon a selfless understanding and application of this synthesis resulting in Love.
I get it. We don't love because we don't work because we don't care because we don't have to. Accountability: the state of being answerable. Yet today being answerable only requires justification and justification is self-serving and justification does not require one to care, whereas justice is selfless and justice requires compassion, effort, love. In actuality one is only answerable for oneself to oneself yet answerable for all of Humanity to Humanity or (if one prefers) to God. Because 'we’ don't have to care or work or love does not mean I don't have to. In the end because I am only answerable for me to me, I can justify and those around me will likely agree. But to think about my responsibility to Humanity, to think that in the end I must answer to all of Humanity, past, present and future, as one, in this moment strongly encourages an essentiality to develop alongside any substantiality residing within my personal synthesis of Beauty tugging at Intuition shaping Faith driving Hope guiding Love.
Yet here we are. Still going along with Humanity and all its philosophies and economies and social structures and pretending substantial is essential, to justify. To justify our lack of Justice, our lack of compassion, our lack of Love.
Whether there is a heaven, an afterlife, a reward, or not, I am answerable.
When I consider the inanity of substantiality without essentiality, I ask the question am I better to care, to work, to love from within our system? Or could I make a bigger difference from outside? I am not at all happy about contributing to its perpetuation, but because the system is so super-prevalent, and because it appears power is necessary to have any influence, and because it appears most power comes from wealth, and because my weekly paycheck is necessary simply for my food and shelter, I have so far opted to continue from within so I am less distracted by concerns over basic needs; so I might set some small example, think more clearly, and express these thoughts more rationally. From outside the system I would have an even smaller audience and my anger would predominate, diluting, even negating any inkling of Truth I might possess. This is an example of how our lack of Love further suppresses Love. It makes sense when I recognize that the wealthy and the powerful became so thanks in large part to this same lack of Love. It is Humanity's greatest sin.
We might yet find salvation in…
- Answerability.
- Essentiality.
- Justice.
- Love.
We need to hurry.