How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the inherent limitations of human abilities and sensations despite variations among individuals.
Maimonides suggests that while individuals of the same species can exhibit significant differences in their sensations and physical faculties, there are inherent limits to these capabilities. This implies a philosophical viewpoint on the nature of human abilities, emphasizing that although variations exist, they are bounded by certain constraints, reinforcing the idea of humility in the face of human limitations.
In practice
This quote can be used in a philosophical discussion about the nature of human perception.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?
there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.
For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.
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