"unscrew the locks from the doors!
unscrew the doors from their jambs!
whoever degrades another degrades me. . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
and whatever i do or say i also return.
through me the afflatus surging and surging. . . through me the current and index.
. . . .
all truths wait in all things,
they neither hasten their own delivery or resist it,
they do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
the insignificant is as big to me as any,
what is less or more than a touch?"
oh theres no words to capture this...ill just take my glass, and dip it in, and then slowly pour it back out, just to see the Merge one more time....thats what all these words are, just boxing it up to go, 'hey there's the Infinite! all nice in a little box!' and then let Her free again, pour S/He/It back into the river .....
"for the good man to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a strait and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license" -john murry
"Fynn, that's the difference. You see, everybody has got a point of view, but Mister God hasn't. Mister God has only points to view."
...What was this child up to? What had she done? In the first place, God could finish things off, I couldn't. I'll accept that, but what did it mean? It seemed to me that she had taken the whole idea of God outside the limitation of time and placed him firmly in the realm of eternity.
What about this difference between a point of view and points to view? This stumped me, but a little further questioning cleared up the mystery. She meant viewing points. The second salvo had been fired. Humanity in general had an infinite number of viewing points. When I put it to her this way and asked if that was what she meant, she nodded her agreement and then waited to see if i enjoyed the taste. Let me see now. Humanity has an infinite number of points of view. God has an infinite number of viewing points. That means that---God is everywhere. I jumped.
Anna burst into peals of laughter. "You see," she said, "you see?" I did, too.
...there is another way: to listen. I don't mean you have to agree with what I am saying. That wouldn't be listening. Believe me, it really doesn't matter whether you agree with what i am saying or you don't. Because agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don't have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly as a result of a certain attitude. So you could be disagreeing with me and still sight truth. But there has to be an attitude of openness, of willingness to discover something new. That's important, not your agreeing with me or disagreeing with me. After all, most of what I'm giving you is really theories. No theory accurately covers reality. So i can speak to you, not of the truth, but of obstacles to the truth. Those I can describe, I cannot describe the truth. No one can. All i can do is give you a description of your falsheoods so you can drop them. All I can do for you is challenge your beliefs and belief system that makes you unhappy. All i can do for you is help you to unlearn. That's what learning is all about where
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is concerned; unlearning, unlearning almost everything you've been taught. A willingness to unlearn, to listen.
Are you listening, as most people do, in order to confirm what you already think? Observe your reactions as I talk. Frequently you'll be startled or shocked or scandalized or irritated or annoyed or frustrated. Or you'll be saying, "Great!" ...
"A thousand years is but an instant. There's nothing new, nothing different. Same pattern, over and over. The same clouds, the same music, the same as I felt an hour or an eternity ago. There's nothing here for me now, nothing at all. Now I remember, this happened to me before, this is why I left. You have begun to find your answers. Although it will seem difficult, the rewards will be great. Exercise your human mind as fully as possible, knowing that it is only an exercise. Build beautiful artifacts, solve problems, explore the secrets of the physical universe, savor the input from all the senses, feel the joy, and sorrow, the laughter, the empathy, compassion, and tuck these emotional memories in your travel bag. I remember where I came from, and how I became a human, why I hung around. And now, my final departure schedule: this way out, escaping velocity, not just eternity, but infinity."
"The improviser can never know what he is doing, where he is going, because it would close off the unknown, the improvisational future. He must remain entirely in the moment, where the form is being built, unstable from moment to moment, in disequilibrium, a process ever unfinished. What he is doing reveals its meaning only in the future, but it has to be acted out in a past that did not as yet posess a sense of it."
"The time is ripe for a turn whenever newly accessible experience can no longer be described by means of the tools currently given."