#How noble in reason? How infinite in faculties

[cabinet-of-sublimities]

What is this thing, this vaunted demigod, a man?

The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe (trans. David Constantine) 

[thegodwithin]

Highlights

Changing the feeling of “I” - Neville Goddard

“Your description of the world is a confession of the self that you do not know. You describe another, you describe society, you describe anything, and your description of the thing you observe reveals to one who knows this law the being you really are. So you must first accept that self. When that self is accepted, then you can start to change. It's so much easier to take the virtues of the Gospel and apply them as the word of life, to love the enemy, to bless those who curse us, and to feed the hungry. But when man discovers the being to be fed, the being to be clothed, the being to be sheltered, the greatest enemy of all is that self, then he is ashamed, completely ashamed that that is the being, for it was easier to share with another something that I possess, to take an extra coat and give it to another, but when I know the truth it's not that. I start with the self, having discovered, and start with change of that self.”

“and he by the arrangement of his own mind, by consenting to these restrictions in his cradle and being conditioned slowly through his youth, waking into manhood believing himself set upon would have to be set upon”

“So you and I can be anything in this world we desire to be if we will clearly define our aim in life and constantly occupy that aim. It must be habitual. The concept we hold of self that is noble must not be put on just for a moment and taken off when we leave this church. We feel free here; we feel that we have something in common, that's why we are here, but are we going to wear the noble concept we now hold of self when we go through the door and enter that bus, or are we going to return to the restrictions that were ours prior to coming here? The choice is ours and the hardest lesson to learn is that there is no one in this world that can be drawn into your world unless you, and you alone, call him.”

“So, the changing of the feeling of "I" is a selective thing because unnumbered states are infinite states, but the "I" is not the state. The "I" believes itself to be the state when it enters and fuses with it, so he was presented with a state and without the faculty of discrimination in his youth, he fused with the state and believed these restrictions were true, and it took him three years to disentangle the "I" from these fixed ideas with which he had lived for so many years. Now you may take only a moment or you, too, may take your three years. I can't tell you how long it's going to take you but I'll tell you this much. It can be measured by the feeling of naturalness. You can wear a feeling until it's natural. The moment the feeling becomes natural, it will begin to bear fruit within your world.”

“You can start now from scratch and choose the being you want to be. You aren't going to change the pigment of your skin but you will find your accent or the pigment of skin or your so-called racial background will not be a hindrance, for if a man is ever hindered it can only be the state of consciousness in which he abides that hinders him. Man is freed or constrained by reason of the state of mind in which he persists.”

“When we make that discovery we shake ourselves out of it and boldly appropriate the gift our Father gave us before that the world was. So let me show you the gift. You've read your Lord's Prayer possibly daily, but you read it as a prayer from a translation of a translation which does not reveal the sense of the evangelist. The real translation, you will find in Farrar Fenton's work where in the original it is written in the imperative passive mood, which is like a standing order, a thing to be done absolutely and continuously. So that you can look now upon your universe as one vast inter-knit machinery where all things happen.”

“There isn't a thing to become; all things are taking place, so it is written in this manner, "Thy will must be being done. Thy kingdom must be being restored."

“If you will see all things are now, you don't become, you simply select the state that you would occupy. Occupying it you seem to become but it is already a fact, every aspect of that state in its most minute detail. It's worked out and taking place. You by occupying the state seem to go through the action of unfolding that state, but the state is completely finished and taking place.”

“Now, how will I know that I have changed the feeling of "I"? By beginning first with an uncritical observation of my reactions to life and then noticing my reactions when I think I am identified with my choice. If I assume that I am the man that I want to be, let me observe my reactions. If they are as they were, I have not identified myself with my choice, for my reactions are automatic and so if I am changed I would automatically change my reactions to life. So the changing of the feeling of "I" results in a change of reaction, which change of reaction is a change of environment and behavior. But let me warn you now. A little alteration of mood is not a transformation; it's not a real change of consciousness. Because as I change my mood for the moment it can quickly and rapidly be I would say, replaced by another mood in the reverse direction. When I say that I was changed, as that gentleman changed his mood, his basic mood, his state of consciousness, it means that having assumed that I am what the moment denied, what my reason denied, that I remain in that state long enough to make that state stable. So that all of my energies are flowing from that state. I am no longer thinking of that state. I am thinking from that state. So that wherever a state grows so stable as to definitely expel all of its rivals, then that central, habitual state of consciousness from which I think defines my character and is really a true transformation or change of consciousness. Whenever I reach that state of stability, watch my world mold itself then in harmony with this inner change. And men will come into my world, people will come to aid and they will think they are initiating the urge to help. They are playing only their part. They must do what they do because I have done what I did. Having moved from one state into the other. I have altered my relationship relative to the world round about, and that changed relationship compels a change in behavior relative to my world. So they have to act differently toward me.”

“the double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let not such a man believe that he shall receive anything of the Lord; for he is like a wave that is driven and tossed by the wind." That man never reaches his goal.”

“So we sit quietly and we simply become imitators of our Father. And He called the world into being by being the thing he would call. And so we sit and we listen as though we heard someone congratulating us on having found what we seek. So we go to the end of the matter and we listen just as though we heard, and we look as though we saw, and we try in this manner to feel ourselves right into the situation of our answered prayer, and there we wait in the silence.”

[aromantic-pantyanarchy]

HAMLET: What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals — and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me.

ROSENCRANTZ: ...

HAMLET: No, nor women neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

ROSENCRANTZ: My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.

HAMLET: Why did you laugh, then, when I said “man delights not me”?

ROSENCRANTZ: To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what Lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you. We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming to offer you service.

HAMLET: He that plays the king shall be welcome — his Majesty shall have tribute on me. The adventurous knight shall use his foil and target, the lover shall not sigh gratis, the humorous man shall end his part in peace.

[saint-sebastian-coded]

thinking about tragic fates again

the burning god - rf kuang // hamlet - william shakespeare // the burning god - rf kuang

[ID: screenshotted quotes. the first one says "Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles." the second one says "What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" the third one says "She saw it in a flash of utter clarity. She knew what she had to do. The only path, the only way forward. And what a familiar path it was. It was so obvious now. The world was a dream of the gods, and the gods dreamed in sequences, in symmetry, in patterns. History repeated itself, and she was only the latest iteration of the same scene in a tapestry that had been spun long before her birth." End ID]

[ariel-seagull-wings]

“What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”

[nemo-s-ink]

« What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! How infinite in faculties ! In form and moving, how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel ! In apprehension, how like a god ! The beauty of the world ! »

- Hamlet, Shakespeare -

[whatapieceofworkisman]

"What a piece of work is man, How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an Angel, In apprehension how like a god"

- William Shakespeare

[therighthandofvengeance]

Delenn, Satai of Denmark

it’s my Shakespearean AU and I’ll do with it I want

I have of late, but

wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all

custom of exercises and, indeed, it goes so heavily with

my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems

to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy

the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament , this

majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why it

appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent

congregation of vapours. What piece of work is a man

– how noble in reason; how infinite in faculties, in form

and moving; how express and admirable in action; how

like an angel in apprehension; how like a god; the

beauty of the world; the paragon of animals. And yet to

me what is this quintessence of dust?

from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (act II scene II)

[monoman1c]

Hamlet. Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me. Come, come! Nay, speak.

Guildenstern. What should we say, my lord?

Hamlet. Why, anything- but to th' purpose. You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to colour. I know the good King and Queen have sent for you.

Rosencrantz. To what end, my lord?

Hamlet. That you must teach me. But let me conjure you by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a better proposer could charge you withal, be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for or no.

Rosencrantz. [aside to Guildenstern] What say you?

Hamlet. [aside] Nay then, I have an eye of you.- If you love me, hold not off.

Guildenstern. My lord, we were sent for.

Hamlet. I will tell you why. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King and Queen moult no feather. I have of late- but wherefore I know not- lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire- why, it appeareth no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me- no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

monologue!!!

[english-history-trip]

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none

More wonderful than man.....

The light-boned birds and beasts that cling to cover,

The lithe fish lighting their reaches of dim water,

All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind....

Words also, and thought as rapid as air,

He fashions to his good use; statecraft is his

And his the skill that deflects the arrows of snow,

The spears of winter rain: from every wind

He has made himself secure--from all but one:

In the late wind of death he cannot stand.

- Antigone, Sophocles

What a piece of work is a man,

How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty,

In form and moving how express and admirable,

In action how like an angel,

In apprehension how like a god,

The beauty of the world,

The paragon of animals.

And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

- Hamlet, William Shakespeare

[jtem]

“What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!”

           --Shakespeare, before social media

[badseedfx]

"What piece of work is a Cinematographer, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god!" https://www.instagram.com/p/CqcDp8PsQ3E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[zerocaim]

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how. infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and. admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like. Hatsune Miku!

[thenotebookwizard]

GOD wants you to have fries with that

This is written in reply to a comment discussion on A03*. *Go check out this **Star Wars fanfic series.

Ahh, college.

That grand institution, so noble in how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties. How necessary for our future!

Or, so they told me. Guidance counselors. Teachers. Bosses. Random commercials on television telling me to stay in school. (Did they really mean I should stay in school that long, though? I mean, what's the cutoff before you're in school too long. Too much of a good thing and all that...)

I went to college for English Writing and Rhetoric. Because I love words, and I hate math. I double majored in religious studies, because I thought I knew everything and decided being very confused about the nature of the universe was a good way to get over that.

I did learn a lot, though. I learned I had no career prospects, unless you count asking customers: "Do you want fries with that?"

Lots of people were willing to let me know that's all my majors would be useful for. Joke's on them! Using the persuasive power of rhetoric and my vast knowledge of religion, I can not only convince you to have fries with that - I can convince you that God (of your choice) wants you to have fries with that!

So. As requested, I give to you the Sermon of the Fast Food Servant: Why God Wants You To Have Fries with that. So, hear the Word of the Lord!

Did not Paul say to the Thessalonians: “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

I am merely a worker, serving my fellows, delivering to them the bounty of food! Would you deny me my chance to work? That would be uncharitable, brothers and sisters! I am but a worker, presenting myself to you as one approved, who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth! (2 Timothy 2:15 - paraphrased)

Do not discount the Word of the Lord as I discount these fries! There is no coupon for righteousness! "For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12)

There is naught unnatural in this food I now beseech you to trade your coin for! "For the earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains." (1 Corinthians 10:26)

And what do I offer you, but the glorious potato! A plant, grown in the dirt of God's earth! One of the first things God gave to us! What could God want more for us, than to eat of the bounty he has given us?

Optional Quote: Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so. (Genesis 1:29-30)

The Prophet Isaiah even spoke of it! "If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land!" (Isaiah 1:19) and :“Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.” (Isaiah 55:2b)

Fries are of the land, consecrated in oil and preserved with salt. Are not fries the tradition of our people, served at our celebrations and our festivals? They are a holy food, blessed by God! Do you listen to the naysayers, those who find no joy in our Lord and our country?

Do not fear! Many speak ill of the fry, for they fear the bounty of the Lord! But you, my brothers and sisters, have nothing to fear! "Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him." (James 1:12)

Must I remind you, even if your cholesterol is high and your pants too tight, that God hath commanded us not to worry of such? Would you deny our Lord by listening to the conspiracies of doctors and scientists, when Jesus himself told us not to?

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body; what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?" (Matthew 6:25). For we love God and worship the Lord, we cannot simply choose not to have fries with our sacred burger, no matter what dangers they may (theoretically) present!

Paul exhorts us in Romans: "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship." (Romans 12:1)

Do not ask me how long the fries have languished! Remember, we "do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” (john 6:27) and I tell you this food has not perished, but has endured, as you shall endure any distress this blessed meal brings upon you!

When I ask of you to super size, I do not lead you into temptation! Nay, I merely remind you of the generosity of God and the generosity Christ has asked of us! "Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.” (Luke 6:38)

So go forth from this place, and rejoice in the bounty of the Lord! "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31)

[gerdfeed]

Indeed, it is ancient: Sophocles’s Antigone features an “Ode to Man” that begins: “Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none more wonderful than man.”2 The Ode praises mankind’s ability to sail the seas, to plow the earth, to tame animals, to secure ourselves from wind and rain. “O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure!” Two thousand years later, this was echoed in Shakespeare: “What a piece of work is a man, How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an Angel, In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals.”3

Ode to Man

[dungeonofgay]

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."

Falin looked at the part-canine creature, tapping her chin. "Hm.. interesting quote, you've got there."

"Oh, why thank you so much! I do have plenty, you know. Maybe.. a bit of Hamlet would be more your style?" She replied, looking over at her with a shift of her posture.

"Oh, I certainly know Hamlet! What he said with mocking and hatred, I say with conviction and admiration! What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and movement, how expressive and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!"

She quickly walked closer to Falin, eyes narrowing in shock.

"You don't really think of yourselves as that, do you?!"

Falin shook her head, before starting to speak.

"I do hope that one day, we are. Is it that, that concerns you, then? The power to make our own choices, and handle our own consequences. Is that.. what you fear?"