What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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