Series[UMA-SRE-20140039] RESEARCH AND REFERENCE CARD INDEXESAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014003900097Scope and ContentVariation on section heading: Soul
Quote: There is much to suggest that when human beings acquired the power of conscious attention and rational thought they became so fascinated with these new tools that they forgot all else, like chickens hypnotized with their beaks to a chalk line. Our total sensitivity became identified with these partial functions so that we lost the ability to feel nature from the inside and more, to feel the seamless unity of ourselves and the world. Our philosophy of action falls into the alternatives of voluntarisn and determinism, freedom and fate, because we have no sense of the wholeness of the endless '?' and of the identity of its actions and ours. As Freud said: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches itself from the external world. The ego-feeling'?' we are aware of is thus now only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseperable connection of the ego with the external world. Reference: Watts, A.W. 1958, Nature, man and woman, Thames, London, p. 12.
Back of card title: Soul Quote: Man when living is soft and tender; when dead is hard and tough. All animals and plants are tender and fragile; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are the parts of death; the soft and tender are the parts of life. This is the reason why the soldiers when they are too tough cannot carry the day'?'; the tree when it is too tough will break. The position of the strong and great is low and the position of the weak and tender is high 'Laozi & Mair, 1990, LXXVI' 'p. 89'. Quote: The integrity of personality is far better preserved by the failth of self-giving than the shattering anxiety of self-preservation. 'Laozi & Mair, 1990, LXXVI' 'P.97'. Quote: He who knows the masculine and yet keeps to the feminine will become a channel drawing all the world towards it; Being a channel for the world, he will not be lowered from the eternal virtue and then he can return again to the state of infancy 'i.e. to spontaneity' 'Laozi & Mair, 1990, XXVIII' 'p. 106 / p.38?'. Quote reference: Laozi & Mair, V., 1990, Tao te ching: the classic book of integrity and the way, Bantam, New York.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0039 Unit 0007Copyright StatusUniversity copyrightConditions of Use and ReproductionCopyright owned by University of Melbourne. For information about ordering a copy of this image contact the University of Melbourne Archives: archives@archives.unimelb.edu.auMenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
