#aristophenes

[themirrorofsienna]

The Broken Whole: From Sparks to Communion

The question of division has followed humanity from the beginning. Some saw it as punishment, others as fracture, others as exile. Still, within different traditions, runs a deeper recognition: the soul belongs to a greater root, a body or tree from which it cannot be separated. Encounters that seem accidental are in fact echoes of ancient unity. The memory of what was broken still circulates, and philosophy, mysticism and myth have given it different names. Plato spoke of a lost whole, Luria of shattered vessels, Paul of the body of Christ. Three languages for one truth.

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[scrubcutter]

Aristophenes - Julia Wright

Assuming we're more intelligent that past generations

[esoterria]

...And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment: these are the people who pass their whole lives together; yet they could not explain what they desire of one another.

Plato, Symposium

(On how people used to be spheres, Zeus got angry and split them, and now we spend our lives looking for the other half of us.)

[cliffcrego]

CALM THYSELF: News = 99% history & 1% its current repetition ☯ PLATO The Symposium (banned in TX?) Aristophanes speech http://bit.ly/HazV4O A brilliant French animation of Plato's Symposium ("A drinking party....") The story of the origin of desire... director: Pascal Szidon voice of Aristophanes: Jean-François Balmer

[catwalkready-blog]

"Let each man exercise the art he knows."

Aristophenes