Its one of my absolute favorite observations from what might very well be my all time favorite book. Do you have any idea how this might apply to you and how your days are organized by thought and the corresponding actions those thoughts continue to dictate to you? When we domesticate our minds and hearts, we reduce our lives. We disinherit ourselves as children of the universe. Almost without knowing it, we slip inside ready-made roles and routines which then set the frames of our possibilities and permissions. Our longing becomes streamlined. We acquire sets of convictions in relation to politics, religion, and work. We parrot these back and forth at each other, as if they were absolute insights. Yet for the most part these frames of belief function as self-constructed barriers, fragile cliches pulled around our lives to keep out the mystery. The game of society helps us to forget the unknown and subversive presence of the human person. The control and ordering of society is amazing: we comply so totally with its unwritten rules. In a city at morning, you see the lines of traffic and the rows of faces all on their way to work. We show up. We behave ourselves. We obey fashion and taste. Meanwhile, almost unknown to ourselves, we are standing on wild earth at a crossroads in time where anything can come towards us. Yet we behave as if we carry the world and were the executives of a great plan. Everywhere around us mystery never sleeps. The same deep nature is within us. Each person is an incredibly sophisticated, subtle, and open-ended work of art. We live at the heart of our own intimacy, yet we are strangers to its endless nature. ~ Eternal Echoes
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:17:54 +0000
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