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“Education is not buildings, libraries, or faculty with big books. It’s people, the mystery of one person leading another as Virgil led Dante, as Athena led young Telemachus, to places never yet imagined, through thoughts impossible to think without a wise guide who has patience with the ignorance, and therefore the arrogance, of the young."
~ Dr. William H. Willimon
"The release of the gifts of one person is far reaching."
The mystery of One Selfhood as the nature and substance of all form cannot be logically explained, the same as God cannot be reasoned out or explained by any one. God has to be intuitively realised, it is heard in silence.The Mystery of persons...
http://www.leaderu.com/truth/3truth07.htmlDescribing the relationship of one person to another, the "I" to the other as "thou", we discover something characteristic, namely, all inter-personal relationships assume the existence of persons, but do not create them. We are conscious that the complete sense of being a person is fulfilled in the inter-personal relationship described above, but does not result therefrom. Just as the person is existent in itself and belongs to itself, as beyond itself it exists (
exsistere), all in the sense of turning towards the other as a "thou"; it is constituted as something given, an original donation. This implies a basic question proper to human beings, the metaphysical question par excellence, namely, the source of the being of a person.
~The Philosophy of Person: Solidarity and Cultural Creativity"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."~Albert Camus.
