"Heraclitus had it right: The organizing principle of the world is fire, strife, and endless change."
He got the part about endless change right, at least. Everything else, not so much.
All of reality comes into being only through desire. In order to desire, you must first know what you do not want. Then, you know what you do want. The release of this tension is what causes desires to manifest into reality, and to expand into more than it was before.
Desire is the engine which drives the expansion of reality. You will suffer in your desires, and your task is to be joyful in the suffering, that we may all experience what is born from it.
Although I would suggest that if we understand fire and strife to represent the forces of entropy and decay, Heralitus has in fact batted 3 for 3.
Life is constant fight against senescence.
Things in the built environment are constantly degrading or falling apart.
And it is as you say, things are always changing.
The desire for more, for better, and for different, all 3 seem to be an innate part of the human struggle against the organizing principles of the world.
"Heraclitus had it right: The organizing principle of the world is fire, strife, and endless change."
He got the part about endless change right, at least. Everything else, not so much.
All of reality comes into being only through desire. In order to desire, you must first know what you do not want. Then, you know what you do want. The release of this tension is what causes desires to manifest into reality, and to expand into more than it was before.
Desire is the engine which drives the expansion of reality. You will suffer in your desires, and your task is to be joyful in the suffering, that we may all experience what is born from it.
Indeed.
Although I would suggest that if we understand fire and strife to represent the forces of entropy and decay, Heralitus has in fact batted 3 for 3.
Life is constant fight against senescence.
Things in the built environment are constantly degrading or falling apart.
And it is as you say, things are always changing.
The desire for more, for better, and for different, all 3 seem to be an innate part of the human struggle against the organizing principles of the world.