Saturday, November 29, 2008

Profound...

A profound thought:

This was the moment when I began to understand how unaware I'd been. In everything. I'd never understood how closely things are connected to one another. We are only a part of a much larger picture. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause a change in the air so that a fly ends up where it might never have gone otherwise. And if we think of the same thing but with ourselves in the role of the insect, and the larger universe in the the role we just played, its perfectly clear that we are affected everyday by forces over which we have no more control than the poor beetle has over the gigantic foot as it descends upon it.

In that case, we must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

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