... | responding to an assertion that he believes in what he's doing because he's motivated by a vision | |
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This is a conversation for transformation, so the answer to the question "Why do we do what we do?" may not be what you're expecting. It may also not be what's popularly touted. <un-aside> |
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Here's the background for the seminar in which he spoke it, taken from the website which transcribes it: "From their base at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, members of the Center for the Study of New Religious Movements have been exploring ways to evaluate the confusing array of activities they define as spiritual, self development, or consciousness oriented. A continuing seminar at the Center has worked on criteria which lay people and professionals can use to discriminate between harmful and helpful conditions in groups pursuing such activities. The quote appears in three forms:
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Here's my answer: I do what I do because I do what I do because this is what I do. It's very Zen. It's the straight answer. I would say it's the truth but the trouble with saying anything is "the truth" is it imposes its own set of hazards such as forcing the truth into the entirely different epistemological domain called "belief" in which the truth only exists as a lie. It'll drive you crazy if you try to figure it out. I do what I do because I do what I do because this is what I do. There's nothing else. I am, and I act. Being, and action - distinct, yet inseparable. Just like the front and the back of my hand. So why do I write? I write because I write. There's no dream of being a writer motivating me. I don't believe in what I'm doing. Neither dream nor belief, as entertaining as they both arguably can be, are required. |
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