Waking Up in An Agnostic Mood
And Choosing to Being Restored to Sanity
The 34th Rule of Love
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What Are Some Definitions of Sanity?
Webster Dictionary
According to Merriam-Webster, sanity is defined as "the quality or state of being sane; especially: soundness or health of mind"
Oxford Dictionary
According to Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, sanity is defined as the state of having a healthy mind and being mentally sound.
What Are Some Descriptive Views of Sanity That Resonate with Me?
Carl Jung
Carl Jung did not provide a clinical or "checklist" definition of sanity in the way modern medicine does; instead, he viewed it through the lens of wholeness and integration
He viewed the "sane" person as someone engaged in the process of individuation—the lifelong, often painful journey of becoming one's true, unique self by reconciling the light (ego) with the dark (shadow).
Phenomenology View
Sanity is redefined from a mere "absence of mental illness" to a profound, lived, and embodied "being-in-the-world". Rather than a purely objective, clinical, or biochemical measurement, sanity is viewed through a subjective lens, focusing on how a person structures their experience, perceives reality, and maintains a coherent sense of self amidst a changing world
Emmanuel Kant View of Sanity
Immanuel Kant defines sanity primarily as the ability to use one’s own reason in a consistent, self-reflexive, and socially communicative manner.
Rilke’s Approach to Waking and Life
The Morning Task: Rilke suggests that if one wakes with a sense of emptiness or despair, one should "not be frightened," but realize that "something is happening within you," and that life is not forgetting you.
"Life is in the Right": Despite the struggles with faith and the "territory" of doubt, Rilke maintained a deep trust in life itself, often advising to "let life happen to you" and trusting that "life is in the right, always".
The Task of Being Poet: In an agnostic mood, Rilke urges turning to one's own life, memories, and immediate surroundings, rather than searching for external, dogmatic answers.
Rilke saw the "agnostic mood" as a form of "solitude" that is "magnificent" and necessary, acting as an "anonymous influence, continuously and gently decisive" on one's personal growth.
Herman Hesse
Hesse viewed individual sanity not as conformity to society, but as the courageous, often lonely, pursuit of self-actualization and inner harmony. He emphasized integrating one’s "two-fold being"—combining intellect with instinct—to avoid despair, advocating for the internal exploration of one's own, unique reality.
The 34th Rule of Love
By Shams of Tabriz
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission—a power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.
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