Our cabin on Hornby Island is surrounded on three sides by forest, and the fourth side opens to the ocean, and more specifically the Salish Sea that sits between the mainland and Vancouver Island.
I like the alliterative polarity - grievance vs gratitude. Nice.
Yes. And the root of grievance is our sense of justice / injustice. Thankfully jewish traction offers another piece of profound moral technology in the guidelines around loving rebuke - tocheichah, how to call out injustice as an act of love and thus guard the heart from hatred of other people (as opposed to hatred of injustice).
We all use some practice in effective ways to give voice to grievance. As well as gratitude!
Thank you, Jamie. Grievance and gratitude both fit the Mussar paradigm that says that the qualities in themselves are neither good nor bad. It all depends on the measure and the context. Such as, there are valid grievances and ones that have no basis in truth. Our challenge is discernment. All good wishes, A.
As usual, Mussar teaches us how to reach up, out, beyond. It helps us utilize our gratitude to effect the greater picture in a meaningful way, hopefully to make a difference. Thank you Alan for the assist!
Nailed it, Alan! Grievance vs. gratitude, yes 👍... And, I suspect if Kohelet were writing today, there would be a line, "a time to put down tools and write a check!" 😜
Hmmm. Wouldn't it be: "A time to pick up tools and a time to doff them, a time to write a check and a time to refrain from writing a check"? There may be a new version in the offing.
Kol hakavod.
I like the alliterative polarity - grievance vs gratitude. Nice.
Yes. And the root of grievance is our sense of justice / injustice. Thankfully jewish traction offers another piece of profound moral technology in the guidelines around loving rebuke - tocheichah, how to call out injustice as an act of love and thus guard the heart from hatred of other people (as opposed to hatred of injustice).
We all use some practice in effective ways to give voice to grievance. As well as gratitude!
Thanks Alan.
Thank you, Jamie. Grievance and gratitude both fit the Mussar paradigm that says that the qualities in themselves are neither good nor bad. It all depends on the measure and the context. Such as, there are valid grievances and ones that have no basis in truth. Our challenge is discernment. All good wishes, A.
As usual, Mussar teaches us how to reach up, out, beyond. It helps us utilize our gratitude to effect the greater picture in a meaningful way, hopefully to make a difference. Thank you Alan for the assist!
Bonnie
Sacramento CA
Thanks to the trees, and to our wise ancestors who helped us know how to look at them.
Spot on; each word seems chosen to carry us onward and upward. Thank you.
Nailed it, Alan! Grievance vs. gratitude, yes 👍... And, I suspect if Kohelet were writing today, there would be a line, "a time to put down tools and write a check!" 😜
Hmmm. Wouldn't it be: "A time to pick up tools and a time to doff them, a time to write a check and a time to refrain from writing a check"? There may be a new version in the offing.