Perfectible Harmony

Everything in life is a balancing act: work/play, career/family, "what I know is the right
thing to do" vs "what we do to get by". What's this balancing act other than trying to
find harmony in all of the intricacies and interrelationships of which our lives consist?
This is not new to modern life. It goes back all the way to the earliest civilizations and
I'll bet even to the most primitive human groupings. "Grog - would you quit messing
around with that stupid "wheel thing" and make a decent hand axe we can trade for some meat!"

Harmony is a quality that "sits right" in both what we think and what we feel. I
think with my rational mind. I feel with my soul. But the "sitting right"
of harmony is seated and judged in my heart. And what the heart is weighing is the harmony of
mind and soul. Grog's heart will be more and more satisfied with his kooky notion of a
wheel as it approaches the shape of a circle. And his interpersonal relations within the
group will be more satisfying when they grok Grog's concept. Grog's wheel will never
be a perfect circle but it will approach perfection. Grog's interpersonal relationships
and how he feels within himself is dependent on a lot more than the wheel, but these
also are instances of striving toward higher and higher states of harmony if
he's going to find serenity and happiness within the community.

															That striving toward higher and higher states of harmony
																	is what I'm calling perfectible harmony.
														What this implies is that there is such a thing as perfect harmony.
																If there weren't there'd nothing to strive toward.

It then also follows, that what began as imperfect harmony and followed an arc of 
perfectibility has the potential to become perfect. You can't really call the end result
perfect harmony because it has a history of moving from imperfect to perfect. You can
however call the end point of striving to be "perfected harmony". Of course, that state of
perfected harmony is relative to the cirsumstances from which it came about.

These are the things I intend to explore on this website. I'll need to present some
basic definitions and then propose examples we can find in everyday life. Mostly these
will center on the arts, but there is an interesting question of whether or not we
can also see perfectible harmony as the driving force of evolution.

Following closely on the definitions will be essays exploring perfectible harmony
in a variety of disciplines. I also have a sister site Prayer of Perichoresis proposing
"perfectible harmony" as the underlying essence of all religious traditions and
spirituality with love as their centering precept for attaining
toward oneness (though not being one in) with the Eternally Divine.

													I think that's what we're missing in contemporary life: a sense that
													there is such a thing as perfect that we can strive toward. I doubt
													humanity can ever regain that sense without 1) reviving it in the practice
													of the arts; 2) introducing harmony as a significant factor in the evolutionary
													and developmental sciences; and 3) a consideration of perfectible harmony as
													the essence of spirituality.