I am so intrigued to learn how ancient cultures got some new inventions, let's say for example the herbal medicine, paper, silk, etc. Those precious inventions were mostly came to be through the process which I prefer to say, "partly conscious." The story often included a little 'incident' which results in a vastly impacting result from generation to generation. Many people would easily ignore those little incidents or simply leave them unnoticed.However, as the history witnessed, in the right people's eyes, those small events can be transformed into such creativity. It is the capturing and reflecting upon these insignificant happening with attention and understanding which make difference. An observant mind, a mind which is not lazy and doesn't let things goes by into nothing. It is creative mind which gains strengths through silence and deep thoughts.
What about today? Almost everything seemed to be just so-so. Then, may be listening more attentively and open the eyes more widely could help. But yes, again and again it is not the self-directed approach which will work. We always need guidance to make things sense. Through that filter and framework, we won't only see things properly but also they will be transformed by our very presence in the Lord.
That's why the remembrance of the Lord is very essential, as when the mind and heart is occupied by the reverence of the Lord, she will absorb the sweetness and fragrance inside out. Only by then, those small and may be insignificant plots of the day can be transformed into the encounters which are filled with love, filled with creativity as the result of discernment and peace at heart.
With eyes open through your light
The vision becomes so bright
set all things into its right
and attracting the mercy might
Silently, quietly without sound
Let Him whisper in the chamber of heart
When life unto him is bound
then there it comes to the highest art
Ameyn! Nice poem and sentiments.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Dad... I am humbled to 'hear' ;) your comment. Very glad to have your visit.
ReplyDeleteLove your blog and your writing. Just came across it because you had a quote by an Elder that I was searching for.
ReplyDeleteI liked your question: "I am so intrigued to learn how ancient cultures got some new inventions, let's say for example the herbal medicine, paper, silk, etc..."
I too wonder about those things and love to study "primitive" cultures that are really not primitive at all.
Here is a quote I came across in my reading. I personally believe that God reveals these things to souls who are close to Him. The knowledge people have today is far less than what people originally had, and what people know today is what has survived and been passed down. Though the holy Elders are given the same knowledge supernaturally that man originally had, and that God intends for him to have. That's just what I think anyway.
"...it is He who gave me unerring knowledge of what exists, to know the structure of the world and the activity of the elements; the beginning, the end and the middle of times, the alternations of the solstices and the changes of the seasons, the cycles of the year and the constellations of the stars, the nature of animals and the tempers of wild beasts, the power of spirits and the reasoning of men, the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots; I learned both what is secret and what is manifest, for wisdom the fashioner of all things taught me."
–from Wisdom of Solomon
Thanks Arsenios for stopping by. I am glad to read your comment and insight which I strongly agree upon: "I personally believe that God reveals these things to souls who are close to Him. The knowledge people have today is far less than what people originally had, and what people know today is what has survived and been passed down."
ReplyDeleteI also start to read your blog and enjoy it. A blog can be a great place to meet a great friend at times.
Have a blessed Holy week! Christ is with us.
Thanks, Yudikris. I hope you too had a blessed Holy Week, and are now rejoicing through Bright Week. God is good.
ReplyDeleteWhile a Protestant I went to Bible school with a young man from Indonesia. I think his last name was Nanlohy, or something like that. He had enormous thighs (that sounds strange to point out), and I asked him about it. He said it was from riding his bicycle up and down the hills of his home. I imagine it may have been a one speed bicycle. That was almost 20 years ago. Great young man with a deep love for God.