We need patience in our lives. There is probably nothing we can achieve without it. Even the most mundane of tasks is never done without patience - we need to start it, and then see it through to completion. That in itself is patience. We must never be too much in a hurry to not wait for results to activities we set in motion. It is only through patience that what we start can end. Jesus was a very patient person. He said in this regard: When you are about to build a house, take stock of everything that is required to do such building so that, having begun the project, you don't run into a situation where it becomes impossible to finish. If that happens, people may laugh at you and say that you began to build but could not finish. We must try to finish what we start. It is always neat that way. Who was it that said nature abhors a vacuum?
What are some of the things in your life that you have started without finishing? Do you still want to finish them? If yes, why don't you? If no, why did you start such things in the first place? I agree that, as they say, there is no hurry in life. But I also know that true enjoyment consists in looking at the things we start being brought to their logical conclusion. It is only the devil that takes pleasure in not finishing what he starts. In fact, the very person or identity of the devil is not finishing what he starts. This is what makes the devil the devil: eternal potentiality; eternal non being. True children of God on the other hand endeavor to emulate God, who is pure act, who is the perfection of all things, and in whom there is no privation. God never starts what he cannot or does not finish. This is because he is pure thought, and he is responsible and patient to see all things to their logical conclusion; what Heidegger calls legein, which translates to the gathering of all things into a perfect wholeness.
There is no privation in God because he is the perfect philosopher. He is the perfect thinker. Just reflect on this awhile. What is it that makes you not complete what you start? Is it not because, half way through, you realize that was not what you wanted to do in the first place? If you realize half way through that you are doing what you never wanted to do in the first place, it means that you did not think it through in the beginning. It was probably some misguided emotion that led you to embark on the task in question, whereas on the other hand you might well have chosen not to begin it at all, because you would have thought it through. You would have, like Jesus recommended, sat down and counted the cost of building the metaphysical house that the task you contemplate represents. You would have known if you could at all finish it once you did in fact start.
Thought is synonymous with patience, and with Being, for Heidegger. We cannot live authentic lives without thought. We cannot live authentic lives without patience. We cannot live authentic lives without patient thought, or contemplation. Socrates has said as much. Plato has echoed the strain. We have to think, and we have to be patient. It is the way to finish what we start. It is the way to start what we can and do finish. It is the way to move forward successfully and optimally. It is the way by which not to stack up endless regrets. It is the way to actualize ourselves as human persons. We must be patient. We must be actual; we must be metaphysical, ontological, philosophical. We must be like God. As his children, we must trust and emulate him, and ape his perfection, just as Christ would recommend. We must not trust in the physical, amplify our devotion to the senses. We must not trust in the power of the horse, but hold it with the metaphysical reins of reason. Because the bible informs us with great caution that, despite the horse's power, it cannot save.
Only God can save. And we must look to him for salvation. Always. Hold your horses, people. Be patient enough to think things through. Start what you can and do finish. Take stock of projects you choose to embark upon. Do not venture into stuff based on emotions. Do not go feet first into the metaphysical waters of phusis. Rather contemplate the Dasein that is synonymous with thought and which pays credence to the ought, to the moral imperative that underlies and perfects existence. Pay attention to the being that is distinct from seeming and becoming, and which informs both. Pay attention to the "things themselves," and not to the predicable categories that attempt to becloud reality with appearances that can at best suggest probable science, phenomena as opposed to what is. Patiently remove the accidents and then attempt to soulfully, spiritually capture what lies beneath.
What are some of the things in your life that you have started without finishing? Do you still want to finish them? If yes, why don't you? If no, why did you start such things in the first place? I agree that, as they say, there is no hurry in life. But I also know that true enjoyment consists in looking at the things we start being brought to their logical conclusion. It is only the devil that takes pleasure in not finishing what he starts. In fact, the very person or identity of the devil is not finishing what he starts. This is what makes the devil the devil: eternal potentiality; eternal non being. True children of God on the other hand endeavor to emulate God, who is pure act, who is the perfection of all things, and in whom there is no privation. God never starts what he cannot or does not finish. This is because he is pure thought, and he is responsible and patient to see all things to their logical conclusion; what Heidegger calls legein, which translates to the gathering of all things into a perfect wholeness.
There is no privation in God because he is the perfect philosopher. He is the perfect thinker. Just reflect on this awhile. What is it that makes you not complete what you start? Is it not because, half way through, you realize that was not what you wanted to do in the first place? If you realize half way through that you are doing what you never wanted to do in the first place, it means that you did not think it through in the beginning. It was probably some misguided emotion that led you to embark on the task in question, whereas on the other hand you might well have chosen not to begin it at all, because you would have thought it through. You would have, like Jesus recommended, sat down and counted the cost of building the metaphysical house that the task you contemplate represents. You would have known if you could at all finish it once you did in fact start.
Thought is synonymous with patience, and with Being, for Heidegger. We cannot live authentic lives without thought. We cannot live authentic lives without patience. We cannot live authentic lives without patient thought, or contemplation. Socrates has said as much. Plato has echoed the strain. We have to think, and we have to be patient. It is the way to finish what we start. It is the way to start what we can and do finish. It is the way to move forward successfully and optimally. It is the way by which not to stack up endless regrets. It is the way to actualize ourselves as human persons. We must be patient. We must be actual; we must be metaphysical, ontological, philosophical. We must be like God. As his children, we must trust and emulate him, and ape his perfection, just as Christ would recommend. We must not trust in the physical, amplify our devotion to the senses. We must not trust in the power of the horse, but hold it with the metaphysical reins of reason. Because the bible informs us with great caution that, despite the horse's power, it cannot save.
Only God can save. And we must look to him for salvation. Always. Hold your horses, people. Be patient enough to think things through. Start what you can and do finish. Take stock of projects you choose to embark upon. Do not venture into stuff based on emotions. Do not go feet first into the metaphysical waters of phusis. Rather contemplate the Dasein that is synonymous with thought and which pays credence to the ought, to the moral imperative that underlies and perfects existence. Pay attention to the being that is distinct from seeming and becoming, and which informs both. Pay attention to the "things themselves," and not to the predicable categories that attempt to becloud reality with appearances that can at best suggest probable science, phenomena as opposed to what is. Patiently remove the accidents and then attempt to soulfully, spiritually capture what lies beneath.
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