Oct 27 (edited) • Introduction
Introduction and taste of my current flow...
Hello everyone,
I’m Jens, and I actually joined IDG as a volunteer without really knowing what it was about. Luckily, I felt a strong vibration in the universe as if I was meant to be part of this community. I can’t fully explain it, but several synchronicities happened that clearly pointed me here, and I’m grateful they did. Im so curious of all of you and see what works we can do togheter! Please let me know if I can do anything for you! Im interested in international works that can empower people!
I’m not entirely sure what else to write in my introduction, but just now, while I was working on a new book project I’ve taken on, I felt an urge to share a small section of it. I’m currently creating a new interpretation of Marcus Aurelius original Greek writings (175 CE) , turning them into a postmodern version called “To Myself.”
Here’s an translated excerpt from Book 9, Chapter 1 as I am writing the book in Swedish:
To Myself
Book 9, Chapter 1.
To harm another human being is to act against nature.
For the world is made so that rational creatures may live for one another
to help, not to harm.
When I break that law, I sin not only against humankind,
but against the spirit of nature itself, the oldest of all gods.
And he who lies commits the same offense.
For nature is truth.
Everything that exists is held together by order, by reciprocity.
To lie is to tear the fabric apart,
to place oneself outside the unity that binds all living things.
Truth is nature’s own name,
the source of everything that is real.
When I lie knowingly, I do wrong, I twist the world.
But even when I lie unknowingly, when I refuse to see
I violate nature, for I move against the rhythm of the cosmos.
I stand in conflict with the order that gives birth to all.
He who flees from truth struggles against the world itself.
And he who chases pleasure or runs from pain
shows the same contempt for nature.
For he complains that life has given him the wrong share
as if the world were unjust
when it allows the wicked to live in pleasure
and the good to suffer.
But nature judges no one.
She distributes, she allows, she knows more than we do.
To try to master her through our desires is impious.
He who fears pain
will in time come to fear life itself.
And that is the deepest impiety
to distrust what is.
He who hunts pleasure will sooner or later violate justice,
and that is the clearest form of godlessness.
He who wishes to follow nature must remain in balance
for nature herself moves not in opposites,
but in harmony
She looks with the same eye upon pain and joy,
upon life and death,
upon honor and disgrace.
And whoever cannot see this,
who despises one and clings to the other,
has already turned away from the divine.
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Introduction and taste of my current flow...
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