I realize I haven't done one of these in a while. Sooooooo...thoughts:
Earth is our home, and our home is a gift, and it's a gift we share.
Even though we can do something, should we? And why shouldn't we do something? And why should we? In everything that we do, who does it matter to?
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” And yet...
We've measured our own selves, torn us to pieces, in order to figure out how we (and the rest of the world) work. We've created a mental disconnect that allows us to act on an attempt at controlling every little thing. Maps, writing, pictures. When you delineate, you break things to pieces. But in those pieces, you work to better understand, even if what you can understand is only a small fraction of the whole.
The world is many shades and combinations, mixing. Variety is the spice of life. But variation is complex and difficult to understand (or control), so we simplify it.
"...All times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;" -- From: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses
In some things, order does matter.
One definition of intelligence is the ability to discern that there is wisdom in everything, but you hold the compass and how you allow that wisdom to guide you or not is your choice. There is intelligence in saying, you had some good points, but I don't fully agree with you. There is intelligence in seeing how a simplified statement can do a lot of good and a lot of bad depending on how it is used, like the above. Depending on how you use order as something that matters, you can place restraints that need not be there on some things. Heuristics are not perfect and should not be used for all things. No rule of thumb rules all (maybe not even this one).
Extremes are interconnected, and neither of them should “win”.
Learn to play more. Enjoy more. Learn what you can do with your own hands, your own mind, your own heart, if you gave yourself the time.
Success and failure both result in learning.
The way to defeat evil is to replace it with good. Now, how is that applied?
When you name something, you've chosen to care about it.
What is your culture? What is our culture?
Perspective is a matter of scale, and everything we do creates scope.
Consider our scope when we employ time as a factor. What matters today? What matters in a year? What matters in a million years? A billion? What mattered a hundred years ago?
And how how we think about the above changes our actions.
What matters more - the vision or the plan to achieve it? Stupid question, they both matter.
Life is as hollow and as shallow as you make it. If you want more, it's there, always.
What is a conversation? What can be and is talked about? What are the limits of conversation? All of these questions can be answered by understanding language structure.
What is enough?
Our desire to populate space stems from a very basic will to survive.
We are more than the sum of all our parts.
"We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use." - From the Tao Te Ching
I'm learning to appreciate the seen and unseen.
What questions are worth asking?
In our culture today, is questioning antagonistic?
I have a respect for ginger root as a spice and a form. If you don't want to waste any of it, you don't have to. But using all of it requires a bit of imagination and patience. It's not so easily peeled like a carrot. It's not straight and simple. It's curved and complex and diverse in use. All hail ginger, and the smell it leaves on your hands.
Related to ginger: https://consideredkula.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/the-useless-tree-chuang-tzu-inspiration-pointe/
What are the goals of our society? What are your personal goals? To become something? To do something? To open yourself up to something? To know something?
Blunt honesty is sometimes nice to have in a friend.
Sometimes you tug at a piece of your life
And that piece is a person.
And with that person,
Comes all the other pieces,
Unraveling.
Music:
https://youtu.be/NivdmQJmLAc
https://youtu.be/f6jma9VQEls
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
