More Journal Gazing.

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Still reading through journals of my past . Here is something I wrote. Since there is no attribution, I believe the words are my own:

“To be ourselves, we must complete ourselves.”

I think this is something I’ve always felt, even when I was too young to know this is what I was feeling. Even at this stage of life, I feel like I’m not finished becoming me, and if incarnation is a fact, perhaps this continues into the next life.  I hope so, because then there is hope for the whole world, including some of its largest villains.  Here is another quote from the same page–one in which I was doing a lot of philosophizing.

Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not also desire for the rest of mankind.

Next to it, I scribbled in pencil, “Baruch Spinoza,” which makes me think that either the quote was his or something I wrote after reading something he had written. I looked it up and it is, indeed a short version of what he had written.

And, one last intriguing quote,  unattributed, which I’d like to have your comments on:

Conscience is not innate, but acquired, and varies with geography.

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  6. Martha Kennedy's avatarMartha Kennedy

    If you mean by geography the ethical culture of a location, yep. As for whether or not it’s innate? I spend a lot of time watching animals and their conscience — which exists — is tied to their survival, not an abstract idea of right and wrong. I thought about that a lot in 2020/21, how much of the human conscience is also governed by the survival imperative and how an individual/culture understands “survival.”

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