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| relaxed1 |
on Sun 24 Jan 10, 2:00 PM to relaxed1's blog.
I used to think that life was, or could be, or should be, oh so simple.
I have always known that people often don't say what they mean, that people often change their minds, but even so, it surprises me how little I know, how little I understand. In fact, the more I know, it seems the less I know, in the sense that I find out how much there is that I still know nothing about.
It is breathtaking, in the same way as staring over a cliff face, or pondering one's insignificance in the totality of the universe. We all try to control a tiny part of the world we inhabit, to influence it in ways that we believe are good or desirable, to make things a little better, a little fairer, a little nicer, and yet we may as well be pissing in the ocean for all the difference it makes.
| 24 Jan 10, 5:52 PM chelsea UK(NW), 4 yrs |
Dear relaxed1, Hoping you are well and having a peaceful weekend... Hope you don't object to the sharing of a quote, it seemed appropriate; " I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in you heart, and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms, or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually without even noticing it, live your way into the answer…" (Rainer Maria Rilke) Have a wonderful week. Love and peace. |
