Lael
For the philosophers, dreamers, and seekers. For people who dare to ask questions that may never be answered. This channel is for you.
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Hello, I'm Lael! I studied philosophy, classics, and religious studies. On this channel I'll be sharing everything I learned (and continue to learn) with you. Some videos will be exploring questions about consciousness, God, and existence, others on myth and meaning.
May you learn much about yourself and the world through these teachings, and may your life always be filled with wonder.
Enjoy.
With love,
Lael
Lael
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A dream only dies when we let it go. Even if it lies dormant in our hearts for seventy years, it still has the possibility of coming true.
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I appreciate winter more as I've gotten older. (This and the fact I'm no longer in -20 degrees temperatures!). The days have a kind of slowness I can only describe as serene.
Even when I'm overwhelmed by the week ahead, by everything that needs to get done, I can't help but look out the window and feel peace in the stillness of the world.
Enjoy this view from my window, and a few of my favorite quotes by Wendell Berry. "The Peace of Wild Things" is one of my favorites :)
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Many days I feel earth is just a resting place, a temporary home.
I feel my life already lived, and anticipation for something to come. What is that something? I do not know. Though one thing I have written in my heart is that life persists.
Perhaps it transforms and travels space at the speed of light. And sometimes I dare to think, that maybe a more magnificent life is waiting, not heaven per se, but something so exceedingly grand that our earthly mind could not have conceived it.
Today earth feels just like a resting place, and I am comforted by this thought. These attachments we have to success and wealth and even knowledge will not persist. They cannot buy existence, and what a gift it is to exist at all.
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I’m at a place in my life now where I no longer have the same hopes and dreams. I thought I knew what kind of life would make me happy, I thought I knew my purpose.
Now I think those dreams were selfish. And that’s not a bad thing. They got me through some difficult times in my life. But now I wonder, what’s next?
I find great beauty in this.
For the first time in my life, I no longer want to be where I was, and I no longer know where I am going. So I am forced to be here, suspended between past and future.
And what a time it is to be alive. To be here in this body, to think with this mind, and feel with this heart.
I think there’s no need to rush, or tomorrow will come before I could have enjoyed today. There’s no need to rush.
There’s so much beauty to be felt remaining in place.
p.s. this is an old photo from by roadtrip across Canada. Only two years ago but so much has changed...
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Reading a book right now about the limits of reason. How we distort truth intentionally, denying the evidence of our senses to justify logic. What is beyond reason? Is truth beyond reason? These are a few things I'm considering.
Meanwhile I found this sublime-inducing Nietzsche quote about the insignificance of our intellect in comparison with nature. But I don't quite agree. I think our intellect is a reflection of nature's intellect. Nature does not need to speak for us to know it is intelligent: it shows us in the way an entire forest can be demolished, only to grow again from a single seed.
p.s. I snuck a paraphrased quote from the book I'm re-reading in here (it's not Nietzsche). Might make a video about it at some point!
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I do believe in destiny. And I often forget, becoming too skeptical when studying philosophy. But yesterday I stumbled upon this story about pediatrician Dr. Michael Shannon, and Chris Trokey, a prematurely born baby. He was 3.2 pounds and had a fifty percent chance of surviving. Despite the odds, Dr. Shannon stayed up around the clock making sure the boy's vitals were stable. And the boy lived.
Thirty years later, on the other side of the country, Michael Shannon was driving along the Pacific Coast Highway when he was hit by semi truck. Luckily a team of paramedics happened to be close by, and they were able to extinguish the flames and pull Shannon to safety. And the man lived.
Now what if I told you these two events were in fact related? The man in the car, Michael Shannon, had been pulled out of the car by Chris Trokey, the premature baby he saved thirty years prior.
When I read this, I could not deny the incomprehensible odds of this happening. There are mysteries in this world we do not know. There is much to be explored beyond reason. So if this story did anything for you today, I hope it made you think about the bigger picture of our lives. Perhaps each of us have a destiny, and every challenge in our life has a place.
Video this inspired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBgKe...
Article: time.com/3763532/paramedic-pediatrician-saved-each…
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 10
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Sharing this because it pretty much sums up how I feel right now. It's why I call numinous and sublime experiences, "encountering the Great Mystery." I study philosophy not because I think I'll find an answer to that mystery, but I do believe it brings me closer to the truth. Philosophy has in many ways given me a deep appreciation for life, and yes, God.
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Reposting my Numinous/Sublime video because I did not like part of it...Thank you all for watching :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9LI7...
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 10
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Something I have been thinking about recently.
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