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What is one thing that there are no words for?
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2009
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Sharon
Sharon
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 20, 2009:
Ah, are you asking this question about the English language, or beyond any and all languages? Your question clarified words, so I know symbolic language is not part of this questions scope. Ummm...so I wonder.
There is a word in Japanese, kokoro, that has no English equivalent! It is such a vast and heart felt understanding that a whole book was written by Lafcadio Hearn to attempt to convey the multidimensional and multivalent meanings that this word encompassed in Japanese cultural understanding of this word.
Ever so loosley we sound bite this word to, "living from the heart," and in so doing we bridge a footpath to its depth, but it falls short delivering a true meaning.
A long study of the nuances of living from the heart and experiencing this way of relating and influencing life is required to give justice to a simple word the English language does not even attempt to encode into a concept, let alone into a word. Says a lot about us, does it not?
Everything transcendent fails to be contained in the container of any word or words!
All to Love, Sharon
There is a word in Japanese, kokoro, that has no English equivalent! It is such a vast and heart felt understanding that a whole book was written by Lafcadio Hearn to attempt to convey the multidimensional and multivalent meanings that this word encompassed in Japanese cultural understanding of this word.
Ever so loosley we sound bite this word to, "living from the heart," and in so doing we bridge a footpath to its depth, but it falls short delivering a true meaning.
A long study of the nuances of living from the heart and experiencing this way of relating and influencing life is required to give justice to a simple word the English language does not even attempt to encode into a concept, let alone into a word. Says a lot about us, does it not?
Everything transcendent fails to be contained in the container of any word or words!
All to Love, Sharon
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