Don Ray: Speaker - Writer
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Some degrees in physics, some time in research laboratories and thatched hut villages, some teaching in universities and management in international technology: all sound like credentials to lend credibility to the role of "author", but such experiences provide only tools and terminology and opportunity, not wisdom and insight.
You and I share the same foundation for whatever wisdom and insight we may glean out of life: the joys and grief, the celebrations and hunger that make up daily living.
I hope my knowledge of physics and funerals, science and spirit, quanta and cultures, can help people bridge the illusory gap between intellect and heart. If so, that will happen not through transfer of wisdom, but through an opening of windows to allow realization of one’s own wisdom. Questioning "what" and "how" led me to universities and degrees in physics. Questioning "why" led me to cathedral and temple and mosque. I have been blessed to learn from a winner of the Einstein Award and from village shamans, but such learning seems inconsequential in comparison to life's lessons: the grim look on the face when after the wreck you ask "will she be OK?"...the feel of the hospital sheets after the stroke...and every warm embrace and authentic smile and sincere welcome.
I am grateful to professors and priests, research centers and jungle shrines, but they provide only the paint color to be applied to the structure built of the scope of real life, built of people and pets, love and loneliness, homes and hospitals.
I pray my research and travel, and the survival and losses that bring me to this point, can open to you the brightness of your heart's own wisdom and the Light of the loving Source awaiting our discovery.
[email protected]
WWW.DrDonRay.BlogSpot.com
WWW.DrDonRay.WordPress.com
Some degrees in physics, some time in research laboratories and thatched hut villages, some teaching in universities and management in international technology: all sound like credentials to lend credibility to the role of "author", but such experiences provide only tools and terminology and opportunity, not wisdom and insight.
You and I share the same foundation for whatever wisdom and insight we may glean out of life: the joys and grief, the celebrations and hunger that make up daily living.
I hope my knowledge of physics and funerals, science and spirit, quanta and cultures, can help people bridge the illusory gap between intellect and heart. If so, that will happen not through transfer of wisdom, but through an opening of windows to allow realization of one’s own wisdom. Questioning "what" and "how" led me to universities and degrees in physics. Questioning "why" led me to cathedral and temple and mosque. I have been blessed to learn from a winner of the Einstein Award and from village shamans, but such learning seems inconsequential in comparison to life's lessons: the grim look on the face when after the wreck you ask "will she be OK?"...the feel of the hospital sheets after the stroke...and every warm embrace and authentic smile and sincere welcome.
I am grateful to professors and priests, research centers and jungle shrines, but they provide only the paint color to be applied to the structure built of the scope of real life, built of people and pets, love and loneliness, homes and hospitals.
I pray my research and travel, and the survival and losses that bring me to this point, can open to you the brightness of your heart's own wisdom and the Light of the loving Source awaiting our discovery.
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