Oh the haste that distracts us from our true role as beauty inhalers
from birth our conditioning of separation and distraction blinds us well
anxious well enough to miss the moment in pursuit of the future that scares us to death
preoccupied well enough to miss the bliss running from the past that we want to forget.
Image: ZOOM ZOOM!!!!!! by Val W on Flickr. (thanks for the inspiration!)
Android Jones
"Dirt got up and wrote poetry" -Ken Wilber
Oh the haste that distracts us from our true role as beauty inhalers
from birth our conditioning of separation and distraction blinds us well
anxious well enough to miss the moment in pursuit of the future that scares us to death
preoccupied well enough to miss the bliss running from the past that we want to forget.
Image: ZOOM ZOOM!!!!!! by Val W on Flickr. (thanks for the inspiration!)
"Modern imaginations have yet to catch up to the potential spiritual implications of the way Einstein reframed our understanding of space and time. Einstein's dismissal of a "personal God" might have struck some in his time as heretical, but his self-described "cosmic religious sense" is intriguingly resonant with twenty-first century sensibilities. There has simply been too little space in our public life up to now to hear such echoes."
-Paul Davies quoted in Einstein's God
by Krista Tippett
“The things we need most are the things we have become most afraid of, such as adventure, intimacy, and authentic communication. We avert our eyes and stick to comfortable topics. We hold it as a virtue to be private, to be discreet, so that no one sees our dirty laundry. We are uncomfortable with intimacy and connection, which are among the greatest of our unmet needs today. To be truly seen and heard, to be truly known, is a deep human need. Our hunger for it is so omnipresent, so much apart of our life experience, that we no more know what it is missing than a fish knows it is wet. We need more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption — anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen or known, or at least see and know ourselves.”
― Charles Eisenstein
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