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شروع کنم تا کمی تایملاین را بشوره ببره.

Are we surprised? Also started this book some number of years ago but never finished. Oopsi

We will miss “the moment” without silence, where fear of God is cultivated and Wisdom flourishes.

Trying to remember that this is translated into English and written in the mid 1800’s so of course it’s gonna be a little odd

Pierce, I saw your question about Job in the book. I don’t think Job was silent under the suffering he experienced, so I don’t think one could say that he was initially unconditionally obedient to God.

I should buy my own copy

I’ve only read the introduction so far, but it has an interesting idea of suffering and how it plays a role in our relationship to God that I haven’t come across before.

Fantastic so far!

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“[t]he obedient lily obediently submits to its circumstances and bursts forth in all its loveliness” (52).

“[…] but to be lovely in these circumstances and in such surroundings, which do everything they can to hinder it [the lily]—fully to be oneself in such surroundings, and to preserve oneself, […] to be entirely carefree in one’s loveliness!” (53)

“The most important thing for the [G]ospel is not to reprimand and scold; what is important for the [G]ospel is to get human beings to follow its guidance” (38)

“Seek first God’s kingdom; that is, become like the lily and the bird; that is, become utterly silent before God: then all the rest will be added unto you” (Ibid.)

“And of course this acquired originality in the lily and the bird is in turn simplicity, for whether instruction is simple does not depend so much on the use of simple, everyday expressions or high-flown, learned language- no, simplicity is that the teacher himself is what he teaches.”

beautiful.

I’m just chilling outside a venue rn but I think I made it to page 70 in this book by now. Kierkegaard is so awesome

Hype gospel moment

“…it is undeniable that God’s kingdom can only be sought when it is sought first; the person who does not seek God’s kingdom first does not seek it at all.”

“The ability to speak is the human being’s superiority over the animal, but in relation to God wanting to speak can easily become corrupting for the human being, who is able to speak.”

I’m starting to feel like I’m on the outside of an inside joke here. This is a direct quote: “Only unconditional obedience can encounter “the moment” unconditionally exactly; only unconditional obedience can make use of ‘the moment’, unconditionally I disturbed by the next moment.”

Word count reached. Albeit it’s only 90 pages.

The lily and the bird don’t give a damn about anything, I get it, hopefully this gets better

A little meandering and occasionally almost conversational - it’s a jolt back into Kierkegaard’s usual style.

It also reads a little like a German joke - silence until the last word that then ties it all together. The points made are almost always approached obtusely, and to try grasp them head on is to entirely mistake forrest and trees.

Themes of focus: silence and obedience

Commenced on 9 Oct 2022

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„simplicity is that the teacher himself is what he teaches“

„There is a today - and there is no worry, absolutely none, about tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. This is not foolishness on the part of the lily and bird, but is the joy of silence and obedience.“

Loving the blend between Kierkegaard’s experience of the tangible reality and his connection to the spiritual. The introduction did a beautiful job of showing parallels between Thoreau and K. I am excited to explore K’s quote: “such a self-relating relation is not a given entity, but a capacity: the self is that this relation can relate itself to itself” and the concept of being “established by another.”

I have never ever read anything this beautiful and alleviating in my entire life!

"But the person who conceals himself in God in unconditional obedience is unconditionally secure; from his secure hiding place he can see the devil, but the devil cannot see him."

"... God's patience corresponds to human disobedience."

"And even if what you want to accomplish in the world were the most amazing feat: you shall acknowledge the lily and the bird as your teachers and before God you are not to become more important to yourself than the lily and the bird."

çok yavaş-yavaş sindire sindire okuması gereken bir kitap 🧘‍♀️bitmesini hiç istemezsin
NUR BEIER de çok güzel çevirmiş, şiirsel bir üslubla 16 yüzyılında yazılmış bir kitabı okuyorsun gibi bir hissiyat veriyor . 😇👵👨‍🌾

I feel like I just need to make it abundantly clear on this website: I'm not dangerously obsessed with Kierkegaard (and to a lesser extent, Heidegger). I'm doing my MA Thesis on these two and this is the best place to keep track of the works I've read. I'm leaving the endless existential angst to after the submission date.

Sólo con mucho temor y temblor puede el hombre hablar con Dios; con mucho temor y temblor.