Becker on Saintliness, continued - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox Ernest Becker sees religion today as failing to open up our perception based on “celebrating God’s creation.” He praises indigenous religions for doing exactly that. Archaic cosmic rituals humanized t...

#ErnestBecker laments organized religion succumbing to defunct commercial-industrial hero systems: denying reality, taking arms against death, & banishing sacredness, treating humans *&* nature as objects, ignoring miracle of creation & ppl's need to do something heroic in this world. bit.ly/46F3i3R

Ernest Becker Offering More Thoughts on Saintliness - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox We concluded a three-part meditation on the meaning of saintliness from Leonard Cohen in yesterday’s DM with his definition that a saint is “a balancing monster of love.” How does this fit with your v...

#ErnestBecker: Healthy #religion offers the possibility of a new #heroism of #sainthood: living in primary awe at the miracle of the created object…incl. oneself in one’s own godlikeness...All compassion is godlikeness in action after all. bit.ly/4bPKGl9

Quote of the Day “To live is to play at the meaning of life.” — Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“To live is to play at the meaning of life.” — Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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“Il Rifiuto della Morte” di #ErnestBecker
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The Greatest Fear That Rules the World | Ernest Becker

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'Nergens is hij neerslachtig, integendeel, zijn proza, zijn humor, zijn relativeringsvermogen, zijn overgave aan dat vermogen maken het lezen van zijn werk tot een groot plezier.’ Arnon Grunberg

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Civilized society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic, and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible.

Ernest Becker
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It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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Quote of the Day “What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.” — Ernest Becker, Escape from Evil

“What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.” — Ernest Becker, Escape from Evil
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#BookSky #TheDenialOfDeath #ErnestBecker

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The ISSEP team and all of us mid-laugh with a classic Sheldon joke.

The Ernest Becker team

The EBF & ISSEP teams

What an awesome weekend celebrating the Ernest Becker Foundation and the @theissep.bsky.social ! #psychology #ernestbecker #existentialism #terrormanagementtheory

Today’s #QuoteOfTheDay is by #ErnestBecker on the central importance of #SelfEsteem