A Selfless Respect for Reality

March 31, 2022

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March 31, 2022

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Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an inaudible
voice. It is selfless respect for reality and one of the most difficult and central of all virtues.

- Iris Murdoch -

A Selfless Respect for Reality

"Thinking about our current global situation, I recall the work of Kazimierz Dabrowski, the Polish psychiatrist and psychologist who proposed a theory of personality development called positive disintegration. This is a transformational approach to psychological growth based on the idea that crises are important for our personal maturation. Dabrowski's concept is similar to a tenet of systems theory: living systems that break down can reorganize at a higher and more robust level--if they learn from the break-down experience." Roshi Joan Halifax shares more. { read more }

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For more inspiration, check out this post by Maria Popova on, "Iris Murdoch on Truth, the Meaning of Goodness and How Attention Unmasks the Universe." { more }

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