Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Symeon the newtheologian

This passage seamed strait to the point without really even saying anything. “...when he dives into the water, he can no longer see anything outside, and he knows only that his whole body is in the water.” A person who can only see what is in front of them won’t have their minds clouded by other thoughts. “The more a man enters the light of understanding, the more aware he is of his own ignorance”. To me that meant that the more a person learns they begin to understand how close minded they are and how little they knew before.

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  1. I also blogged on this passage. "Our mind is pure and simple." this seems to be a trend in a lot of our passages. They seem to always talk about having a pure, clear, simple mind.

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