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We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. place a common individual - by common, i mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

-Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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We Are Ourselves The Stumbling-blocks In The

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. place a common individual - by common, i mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

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I've learned a lot about women. i think i've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the garden of eden. adam and eve were in the garden of eden, and adam said one day, wow, eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with god, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. and eve said, yeah... it's just not enough is it?

Eden is a conversation. it is the conversation of the human with the divine. and it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. it is not a thing, eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. to live in eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. altogether we call this beauty.

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

The bible is the story of two gardens: eden and gethsemane. in the first, adam took a fall. in the second, jesus took a stand. in the first, god sought adam. in the second, jesus sought god. in eden, adam hid from god. in gethsemane, jesus emerged from the tomb. in eden, satan led adam to a tree that led to his death. from gethsemane, jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. you should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. if it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.

Yes, eden was beautiful- and if i had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, i mean? what was i doing there? ‘presume not the ways of god to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of mankind is man.’ maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the devil doing in eden?) i took the forms of animals. i found i could. (that’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because i find i can.)

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