another quote
"Reality is like a fine wine . . . it does not appeal to children."
- Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What
one of my favorite all time quotes. i feel like i didn't really learn about reality until after college. i could go one, maybe i will later. but the two other americans are out of the office this week, so it was a long day today and i need to go to sleep.
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"we must choose to live beyond the boundaries of this world!"
im in college. i dont know reality yet. but im enjoying it as it comes. im gonna take as long as possible before i experience reality, as much as i can help it.
it is one thing to look in amazement at a gizzerd or a gorgon - a creature that doesnt exhist but quite another to look at a hippopotamus - a creature that does exhist and look at it as if it doesnt."
I used that quote in my last speech, which was steller baby. I talked about a rightous man's suffering. It was real mystical and philosophical. I was real nervous because when i practiced it on my friends, i could never get across the fullness of my point. but as soon as i got up there, it all came together - or moreso than it had before.
It was actually a persuasive speech on why taiji can give you happiness despite phisical and mental sufferings. I alluded to the book of Job. I used the peace Job came to when GOd brought the mysterious conondrums in the nature of the universe which helped him rationalize his irrational events in his life. THats what taiji is about, finding sense in the non-sensible things - it calms your physical body to the simplest elements (breathing, circulation, slow concentrated movements of your body), and then it calms your mind to the simplest elements, makes you focus on nothing but the present - the elememts of the earth - rocks, clouds, birds, sky, stars. And when you contemplate the simplest things in life, you find how utterly amazing they can be. You begin to look at things in this world as if they didnt exist. WIth a deeper appreciation and wonder. According to alan watts, the sense of wonder is a sense of awe. which is a basis for respect in this world. "respect is based on wonder, on feeling the wonder of feeling a pebble between your fingers."
it is one thing to look in amazement at a gizzerd or a gorgon - a creature that doesnt exhist but quite another to look at a hippopotamus - a creature that does exhist and look at it as if it doesnt
nice to see you have been able to use the watts stuff.
-elias
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