Dogmatix
"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant."-- Dogma: must-see movie according to Kev
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939), Canadian novelist, poet, critic. The Handmaid’s Tale, “Historical Note,” (1986).
posted by Jet (Anat) at
8:18 a.m.
2 Comments:
It's a belief in an idea that sees it into fruition :)
I feel solid, long-lasting happiness is associated with stagnation, not change. I'm not being lazy. I've just found my happy place and am quite pleased with it :) Let others throw more variables in to their lives in attempt to find the same thing, always changing it and never satisfied.
An anchor doesn't limit growth. It secures you to what you do have, and lets you know that it is always more than enough to keep you in steadfast and going, no matter what storm may come your way.
Perhaps Stagnation isnt the word we should be using. Stagnation in and of itself, as in a river, implies the ceasing of growth, progression and development and the eventual decline of life. Perhaps this long-lasting happiness is achieved through consistency - where our beliefs, goals, environment, hopes and dreams may change from day to day -yet through all of these life's adventures we carry with us the consistent variable (s) with which anchor us and remind us what is important. That which allows our hearts to be at home, no matter where we are.
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