Could you describe..

[Reefs]

Jul 10, 2023 10:40:02 GMT -5 zazeniac said:

"What we're looking for is what is looking."  That's it. Period.

Perfect!

[sharon]

Jul 10, 2023 10:40:02 GMT -5 zazeniac said:

Jul 9, 2023 11:00:02 GMT -5 sharon said:

Thanks, I'm happy to read a few pages of text on this subject. If you get a flow on then cool.

Ah, yes a Catholic origin would make sense. But why the word Saint? How did the word form? According to the internet the word is only 800 years old.

www.etymonline.com/word/saint

So the origin of it was Sanctus.. that word has much more body to it.

I like Sanct Francis of Assisi, it looks like he was kind to animals and saw them as himself. Yeah Sanct Meister Eckhart sounds awesome. 

So to summarise so far.. a Saint serves the Church and sages and boddhisattvas serve their people?
 

Francis of Assissi is a lovely human. My favorite. His famous quote:"What we're looking for is what is looking."  That's it. Period.

That would be what the Gnostics called..'the God beyond God'.

[sharon]

Jul 9, 2023 20:40:19 GMT -5 laughter said:

Jul 9, 2023 11:08:10 GMT -5 sharon said:

Ok, I understand. So Jesus was the original Saint, and all use of the word after him is due to the travails of life bringing with them opportunities to transmutate these events into honourable happenings?

I don't know if the word Sage 'survived' Christianity, my encounters with it have come from those with an Islamist heritage.

Well, there is a plant named after it, so there's that, kind of a clue.

Talking of plants I had a Salvia Divinorum delivered today. This conversation did inspire me a little.

Thanks.