constructing spirituality from first principles

[sebenikela]

There's a whole long thoughtful post I would like to make about the idea that awe and wonder and even "worship" are not unreasonable ways to approach the many amazing things that exist in the world and other axioms around which I seem to be tentatively constructing a kind of spirituality that isn't made of barbed wire and broken glass.

This is definitely not that post, but I want to store this related quote for sometime when I have more brain:

"If there is a spirituality of scientists, it is that at one and the same time you are compelled to discover truth and cleave to that and mine it and also to live in expectation of everything that is yet to discover.”

From "On On Being: Krista Tippett tends to her flock in the Church of the Spiritual (but not necessarily religious)" by Amy Larocca at The Cut

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[kaberett]

<3

[sciatrix]

oh, oh, that.

[to_do_list]

I am closing my 500+ open tabs - got them down to 90ish! So apparently, this was one of them.

This bit - "awe and wonder and even "worship" are not unreasonable ways to approach the many amazing things that exist in the world" - is something that has been very strong for me for a number of years now.

I moved closer to atheist than agnostic over time (starting somewhere around pagan). And this sense of being absolutely mesmerized by wonder at the intricacies of the Universe - at the beauty and complexity and biomechanics and the way all the cells work together - of all the little things like a green leaf or a ladybug - it has been really strong for me. When I am afraid of nothingness of death, I find some comfort in this sense of wonder and amazement and awe. I have also both just naturally experienced it, and tried to nurture and maintain this feeling as a steadfast companion.

[sebenikela]

congrats on the tabs!

reminding myself about the amazingness of nature/the universe/stuff is really good for me too