Institute of Reflection

The virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation – A Tool for Clearer Thinking, Emotional Balance and a Rounded Perspective
What is Reflection?
by <a href="https://instituteofreflection.com/author/larryholofcener/" target="_self">Larry Holofcener</a>

by Larry Holofcener

Larry Holofcener was a gifted polymath, a famous sculptor and a playwright. The thrust of his thinking touches on many of the aspects of life to those who are given to reflection. He lays stress on the importance of learning, of thinking about what is going on in the world, mankind’s drives and urges, the beauties and bounties of nature and the ‘un-seeing way in which we live our lives. A sense of the extraordinary strangeness of life pervades his work. What a strange creature is man; what a strange world we inhabit!
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Teaching is nothing,
Learning is all.
Building, baking,
Shoe and dress-making,
Farming, fishing or fashion
Whatever your call,
Make it your passion!

That Ending is fitting for those who believe in fantasy, in miracles, in a god. Or the tooth fairy. It is for those who denied or ignored the warnings of the earth’s scientists about the failing health of the planet caused in part by burning coal, oil and wood; killing the forests for human exploitation; and worst of all, careless over-population of the human species.

However, for those who fought valiantly to save the planet, there is another Ending.

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