Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Biological optimism

If only we humans could live like this ...

“The existence of each of the species is dependent upon trust, indeed a biological optimism, in which each species feels the freedom to develop the potentials of its members in relative safety, within the natural frameworks of existence.  Each species comes into being not merely feeling a natural built-in trust in its own validity, but is literally propelled by exuberance in its ability to cope with its environment.  It knows that it is uniquely suited to its place within life’s framework.  The young of all species exhibit an unquenchable rambunctiousness.  That rambunctiousness is built in.
“Animals know that their own lives spell out life’s meaning.  They feel their relationship with all other forms of life. They know that their existences are vitally important in the framework of planetary existence.  Beyond that, they identify themselves with the spirit of life within them so fully and so completely that to question its meaning would be inconceivable.  Not inconceivable because such creatures cannot think, but because life’s meaning is so self-evident to them.”
(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2Session 912)

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