Ray of Truth

The Carnival

“Carnival with all its images, indecencies, and curses affirms the people’s immortal, indestructible character. In the world of carnival the awareness of the people’s immortality is combined with the realization that established authority and truth are relative.” M. Bakhtin

The Original Disgrace

“This nucleus (Ur-grund) is that of “original sin.” Because of that fall or “dis-grace,” in the emphatic and etymological sense, the human condition is tragic. It is ontologically tragic, which is to say in essence. Fallen man is made an unwelcome guest of life or, at best, a threatened stranger on this hostile or indifferent […]

The Sky

“Even before any religious values have been set upon the sky it reveals its transcendence. The sky symbolizes transcendence, power and changelessness simply by being there. It exists because it is high, infinite, immovable powerful.” Martin Buber

Departs from Familiar Limits

“The unhomely prevents us from making ourselves at home and therein it is overpowering. But man is the strangest of all, not only because he passes his life amid the strange under-stood in this sense, but because he departs from his customary, familiar limits, because he is the violent one, who, tending toward the strange […]

Continuous Recovery of Identity

“To be I is, over and beyond any individuation that can be derived from a system of references, to have identity as one’s content. The I is not a being that always remains the same, but is the being whose existing consists in identifying itself, in recovering its identity throughout all that happens to it. […]

The Hidden God

“Immanence constitutes the most interior nature of the absolute, the absolute it-self, its essence. This is why the absolute permits itself to be understood by starting from this hidden state or as that which maintains itself in this state; this is why “No one has seen God,” and finally why God is “the hidden God.” […]

The Exit from the I

“The event of life as a whole has no way out from within, life may express itself as a deed, as repentance – confession, or as a scream; absolution and benediction descend from the Author. The exit is not immanent to life, rather it descends upon it as the gift of another’s activity coming to […]