Paradise as Reality, Not Imagination

Memories of paradise. That's not just a great dream sequence or catchy movie title. That's something that resonates through almost every culture on Earth. The Roman poet, Tacitus, wrote in the first century A.D. about how humans lived following the prompting of their own nature, which led to righteous actions. In India, the story has been passed on of how all humans were saintly. The Chinese sage, Chuang Tzu, wrote about an age of perfect virtue. And of course, the Biblical story speaks about Eden, a Garden of harmony and peace and oneness with God. In Portugal, there is a beautiful word that doesn't really have a translation into English: saudades. It means a state of deep yearning for someone or something that's absent, and "indolent dreaming wistfulness." This is what we feel in relation to Paradise. That memory resonates in our hearts and somehow is behind our drives to accomplish and improve. Paradise as Reality, not Imagination, today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Click here to listen to this episode .

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Paradise as Reality, Not Imagination is an episode from Thinking With Somebody Else's Head by Richard Lloyd Jones.

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This episode was published on Jul 9, 2025.

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