An Endless Knot

Ideals are reflections of our deeply religious nature. But, as we know, ideals can be poison if we take them in large quantities or if we take them incorrectly; in other words, if we take them not as ideals, but as concrete realities. Ideals should inspire us to surpass ourselves, which we need to aspire to do if we are to be truly human, and which we can never actually do, exactly because we are truly human. Ideals are tools for inspiration, not realities in themselves. The fact that we have so often missed this point accounts for the sorry history of religion in human civilization. If rightly understood, ideals make us light-hearted and give a sense of direction.  - Norman Fischer I read this quote today in Jack Kornfield's book, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry . Looking at the international response to the murder of George Floyd, one can't help but feel a kind of tide turning in our collective unconscious. Where many of us failed or refused to grasp the enormity of systemic r...