Drifting Together

Looking at snowflakes under magnification,
they all appear different.
Watching them fall from the sky,
they all seem the same.
Seeing them on the ground,
they're all one.

I guess we're all a little flaky.

A New World

I seek to understand another world beyond what I can experience. I'm a dolphin wishing to know of mountain goats, dust storms and forest fires. I don't want to build on my understanding, but want it to be erased and replaced with another template, in a new context. I long for this notion of what is, this fantasy that I've been cobbling together for a half of a century, to be shredded and scattered and forgotten. I want to trade in my five senses for six new ones, to exchange my clumsy thinking for clear knowing. There's so very much that I can't perceive and that won't fit into my simple story. I intuit that it's there and yearn to embrace it, but here I am, left to frolic beneath the waves, merely dreaming of dragonflies and tumble weeds.

Faithfully Yours

People are always crediting God for getting them through tough times, when it's really their faith that did it. They chose to believe that some benevolent deity would look after them and theirs, but that needn't be a part of the equation, at all. Faith, in and of itself is the source of the spirit of perseverance, and the strength to overcome trials and triumph, despite any echoing voices of doubt. Faith that things are OK and will work out for the best, that one will survive, prosper or be a force for good. Faith that no matter what happens, adversity will be overcome and one will become better as a result.

God doesn't do anything, faith does.

Certain Freedoms

Philosophers, spiritual aspirants and scientists have certain freedoms, not permitted in the halls of religion and politics. They're able to hold multiple contradictory theories at once, without feeling conflicted. They comfortably embrace a quest for the honest truth, at whatever cost to their history and suppositions. They're strengthened by knowing that unquestioning commitment is fool hearty and disempowering. They see being proven wrong or shown another way, as welcomed progress. They understand that faith can, and does, thrive in the absence of fixed belief. And they're allowed, in fact, expected to think and judge for themselves.

The Mother Universe Theory

Just as a ray of sunlight cast upon a wall is merely a glimmer of the suns radiance, so to our essences are but a glistening of the universal consciousness. The universe itself is engaged in a search for knowing and in its quest has fragmented itself, investing its consciousness into everything that is and all that is between. We are, in essence, a small part of the universe’s quest to understand itself.

On Meditation:

We don't meditate to gain something.
We meditate to free ourselves of all of the things
that obscure our ability to open to that which we have,
yet don't, and can't, possess.

Question(s) d'jour:

How do you want to feel?
Knowing that your presence affects how others feel,
how do you want to make others to feel?
Are the two compatible?