Jewish philosophy...or the sick and the healthy

'The meaning we receive can be put to the proof in action only by each person in the uniqueness of his being and the uniqueness of his life."

How we are warped by a warped picture of reality and ourselves. We grow into the picture we have/make of ourselves (Iris M). Is that an argument for the anionic-something common to Jewish and Muslim sensibilities, approaches? Or is it a case, more lovingly, less harshly, for appropriate images? To see justly, lovingly... (Iris, again). The need for icons, bridges, rituals.

Religion is not an 'explanation', but a transformation.

"But for those living without questions..." there is no question of whether a transformation is 'religious' or not. The transformative moment entering and changing the 'It-world'. Reverberating in specific forms as you find your own, particular, unique form in life.

"Dry spells" ...learning, hard work. Is there grace without it? For Christ's sake, let there be. If not, winter.

If you are healthy do you think of sickness?

"The attempt to substitute words, especially words that have no religious content because they have no genuine internal relation to a religious life, for that kind of life."

Of course, yes. Cavell's brilliant, dazzling essay on Kierkegaard. But then again, what is a 'genuine' religious life? That's the crux of it. The need for forms, languages, observances, ways of approaching. Perhaps.

The whole earth is a mosque.
---a prophetic saying.

Who is to say? Should these things not be decided by God? What counts as a 'religious' act?

Rumi: a prostitute who places some milk for a thirsty cat finds her way to heaven. Who is to say?

"What is unchangeable? Unbiased reflection reveals once more that it is only a name." (neither essentialism, not nominalism. The hardest thing to grasp)

Common sense action: "we are responsible for what we have thought and done in the past, responsible now, intellectually and practically, and that is what makes us thinkers, rational agents in a world at all.