"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination."
-- John Schaar
Your thoughts?
2007-08-15 09:08:40 · 40 answers · asked by Kallan 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it is dead on. Just like divination tarot for example does not reveal what will come to pass, but only what will happen if current direction is not changed. the future is not set in stone and we can be on the road to a certain problem like divorce or addiction but when we change our direction we change what could have been.
2007-08-15 09:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't we follow the path that's made for us, not create the path?
I think you should ask a different group than R & Sers. Wouldn't most people that believe in a Higher Power believe that God (or whoever they worship) creates the future?
I'm not sure I fully understand the quote, though.
2007-08-15 09:16:09 · answer #2 · answered by Phantom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It makes sense. Every choice I make limits my options in one sense, but creates new options in another.
But, in the same way, the future is unknowable, and I can't know which new options are opened by my choices, so the only possible option is for me to know that I am changed by my decisions.
On the other hand, am I changed, or am I simply becoming what I am supposed to be, in which case I am not really changing so much as completing the process.
All I can say for sure on this topic is that I like pie.
How's THAT for spiritual?
2007-08-15 09:31:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such seems very accurate and true.
Each is on a journey. As each one travels each makes choices.
Each choice has a consequence and associated responsibilities (karma), creating the situation one finds oneself in in a direct cause and effect manner/method.
Once one begins the journey and begins to make ones choices and to be effected by the same, one changes as the nature of all things is change.
What one thought yesterday is different from what one thought today as one has changed and hopefully grown by the process.
Each one is part of all. When one part changes all is changed.
This is Buddhism, expressed by the Gotama Buddha over 2,500 years ago.
May it all be well with you.
2007-08-15 09:16:36 · answer #4 · answered by Big Bill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a delightgul quote. It's very true and might give the reader a new light on things, if they are feeling a bit angered by the way life is going for the. Very nice, though, I'll give you a star and write that one down...Cheers!
2007-08-15 11:42:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I believe that everything that we have gone through has its purpose in our life and in that respect, we do create our own path. Yes, the activity definitely does change you, for good or bad.
2007-08-15 09:15:32 · answer #6 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, basically there is no future only a present? At one level this is true, we really are only guaranteed of today. On another level, the future is out there. People who live in a first world country place a lot of hope in the future because there is hope for improvement. People in poorer sections of the world live for the present because the future does not hold hope.
To sum it up, I really think it depends on your outlook on life. Do you live for the future or the present?
2007-08-15 09:13:57 · answer #7 · answered by seminary bum 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely...Yoda (Star Wars) said that it's difficult to see the future because it's always changing. I believe that by 'telling the future'...as in a 'fortune reading'...alters it. If you know something 'will' happen...or even 'might' happen, you will affect its outcome, and, in doing so, alter who you are in relationship to those things. Nice quote...I'll have to read more from the guy!
2007-08-15 10:23:46 · answer #8 · answered by Rev Debi Brady 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very true, we build the future by our desicions and actions.
Hopefully the maker comes out wiser from the labor.
Thank you for that Kallan.
2007-08-15 09:17:58 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Profound. Interesting.
2007-08-15 09:15:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋