lately i have been drawn to seeing the universe as a kind of system, as a living organism. a system of which i am only a microscopic part, but of which i still at some level is fully conscious of. it is creation in some way becoming aware of itself.
Don’t compromise the integrity of your model by letting fear stop you from externalizing it.
I am going to take on the daunting task of writing a general manifesto, i.e. one that applies to life and living in general. I don’t know how long this will take and in what format (a single long post, several smaller ones, etc) it will be in, but I feel fairly ready for the challenge. I think I’ll write it in swedish though, and maybe translate it later.
It all starts with love. Without love, there will always be a sense of something missing, a void to fill.
Now you might succeed in building great castles founded on things other than love … on fear, greed, need, ignorance … even on ideas that seem ever so noble.
Life’s lessons are not always to be found in the big things. If you look closely enough and pay attention, there are profound lessons to be learned in the smallest and most ordinary things.
Today, for example, I had a little conversation with ego over getting my hair cut.
The road ahead of me is out of sight. I strain to see, but make out nothing but contours. It might make a hard left, or a right, or just fall out from under me – there is no one to ask, because no one can tell.
Some two or three years back, as my fitness was if not shot to hell, at least way below what I wished it to be, I decided to start running.
Right now, looking back, I see the progress I have made since then. I can run longer, and I can run faster. Well, of course I can – these facts are neither very surprising nor interesting. What’s more interesting though, is that I now, three years down the road, find myself with an almost radically different perspective to running.
It’s not what it used to be. The physical of running has somehow merged with the spiritual of meditation. And I think they will prove a happy couple.
Today I wrote a running manifesto, and without further ado, here it is.
Some thoughts about a recent article (13/9-09) about Peter Ward’s medea hypothesis
The medea hypothesis, as opposed to the Gaia hypothesis, is the idea that life is suicidal, i.e. left to its own it’ll self-desctruct sooner or later. As evidence that the medea perspective on life is clooser to the true state of affairs the author [...]