plane read
just finished 'life of pi' on the plane- funny, i was flipping through the chicago humanities festival catalogue, and there is a lecture on it! i might go.
anyway, a couple of quotes i liked:
"words of divine consciousness: moral exultation, lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably... An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose."
and my favorite:
"at moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe."
yes! i love that. i can totally identify with that- when i'm inspired, i feel this overwhelming sense of the bigger picture....
mpc just called me to ask me if i'd be interested in doing a marathon with her and a couple of the girls- the proceeds go to cancer research. it makes all of us feel less helpless in the face of losing someone to cancer, but on a grander scale, i can only imagine what good it is doing. something touches one person, who forever after is more conscious- that kind of thing can change the world. more than 1,500 people die every day from cancer- it's something i can't accept- i can't grasp. that every day, friends and family of 1,500 people are made to feel the way i feel about losing my cousin. that's a hell of a lot of people. can i do something? i know i'm not a runner- 2 miles on the treadmill kills me- but even if i don't rock out this marathon, i'm always going to be more conscious about this disease. more compassionate.
that is what i mean when i feel inspired. i think of all of us working really hard to train for a marathon- a half marathon- none of us being runners in the least- and suddenly i feel like i have some sense of a bigger picture...
just finished 'life of pi' on the plane- funny, i was flipping through the chicago humanities festival catalogue, and there is a lecture on it! i might go.
anyway, a couple of quotes i liked:
"words of divine consciousness: moral exultation, lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably... An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose."
and my favorite:
"at moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe."
yes! i love that. i can totally identify with that- when i'm inspired, i feel this overwhelming sense of the bigger picture....
mpc just called me to ask me if i'd be interested in doing a marathon with her and a couple of the girls- the proceeds go to cancer research. it makes all of us feel less helpless in the face of losing someone to cancer, but on a grander scale, i can only imagine what good it is doing. something touches one person, who forever after is more conscious- that kind of thing can change the world. more than 1,500 people die every day from cancer- it's something i can't accept- i can't grasp. that every day, friends and family of 1,500 people are made to feel the way i feel about losing my cousin. that's a hell of a lot of people. can i do something? i know i'm not a runner- 2 miles on the treadmill kills me- but even if i don't rock out this marathon, i'm always going to be more conscious about this disease. more compassionate.
that is what i mean when i feel inspired. i think of all of us working really hard to train for a marathon- a half marathon- none of us being runners in the least- and suddenly i feel like i have some sense of a bigger picture...
...Natural is the static
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