Friday, December 12, 2008

Senseless arguments

N.R. and H.R. suggest: "do not engage in senseless argument."

From the writings of Helena Roerich:

1. Pay no attention to the arguments of the ignorant. Only one thing is important: to consider World Cooperation as an absolute necessity of evolution. (New Era Community para 240)

2. Moreover, avoid arguments about that which is undeniable. (Heart, para 21)

3. Each one who is argumentative deprives himself of the great communion with the Above. Do not let us confuse reason and conditioned reasonings. Reason leads to wisdom, in other words, to the heart. But a worm argues, even though he crawls with difficulty across the path of men. Therefore, let us persist in the achievement of the heart. Because in it is the coffer of ecstasy, which cannot be acquired with gold. (HEART 1932 Paragraph 336)

I appreciate exchanges of differences, of different viewpoints - but not that which is "senseless."


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