Can we zoom out and get to a place of Love? Zara Yacob, and many great thinkers throughout the centuries believe it is the only way to salvation. Yacob was the first to posit that thinking and rationality actually start with the heart. What stops us the from having love and compassion as a starting place? Perhaps it's the trauma defense mechanisms we build to protect ourselves.
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
Seventeenth century Rationalist: On the rationality of the heart. by Tedros Kiros
The Meditations of Zara Yaquob - Tedros Kiros
The Human Experience - Robert Firestone Ph.D
The Principles Behind the Human Experience - Michael Neill
