This, to me, is the most significant thing I have ever stumbled across. (Clumsy. Who knew, .. right?) When I first read this particular chapter, I remember saying "That's it. Fight's over. Yee fricken haw, I knew it!"
I have since, went back and read the whole book, BEYOND THE HUMAN CONDITION. All I can say is ... Yee fricken haw!
If it doesn't hit you right away ...... it will down the road.
I found it very comforting to see things in this way. It makes it easier to have compassion for people lost in greed etc who are doing so much damage. And for myself. I spent a lot of years bucking society. It hurts a lot internally and requires a degree of maintenance through justification, rationalisation and pursuing facts that supported my chosing to go my own way. I think just participating in this forum is an act of defiance to your own mind or instincts in some way. Great post! Very harmonious and balancing way to hold our human reality in my mind.
'We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.'
(T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, from Part 5 of Little Gidding, 1942.)
to me to,when Adam the stork split off from the flock to check out the apples, it signifies the beginning of the age of duality, the need to experience the 'other side" in order to find out that we weretruly divine all the time, and make our way back to the source. and the time we are experiencing now is the beginning of the end of the need for duality. I like things simple, so , for me , this quote says it all. everything in between is just part of the process. All the things we love, and the things and people we curse, are just part of the process. It is hard not to take them personally when we are affected by them in our daily lives, but, as long as we stop and remember from time to time that it's all "part of the ride ", we will all get there ! gotta love it !
'We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.'
(T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, from Part 5 of Little Gidding, 1942.)
to me to,when Adam the stork split off from the flock to check out the apples, it signifies the beginning of the age of duality, the need to experience the 'other side" in order to find out that we weretruly divine all the time, and make our way back to the source. and the time we are experiencing now is the beginning of the end of the need for duality. I like things simple, so , for me , this quote says it all. everything in between is just part of the process. All the things we love, and the things and people we curse, are just part of the process. It is hard not to take them personally when we are affected by them in our daily lives, but, as long as we stop and remember from time to time that it's all "part of the ride ", we will all get there ! gotta love it !