"The poet reads his crooked rhyme/ Holy, holy is his sacrament"

[shinypaul]

Discernment is not really something that one does once, figures it all out and then is set to go. Discernment has to be an ongoing, ever-unfolding endeavor. That said, it sure seems like there are points in time when discernment is a much more immediately pressing, at-hand sort of task and it seems like there are times when the more immediately

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[mrsvelvetears]

"Simplicity, in my experience, tends to indicate either profound truth or gross reductionism."

I completely agree. This is what makes making life choices in general so difficult...

[theazureshadow]

It's possible that those simple statements bloom into complexity when you unpack them. Like evolution. Like a "mustard seed". I think that simplicity works better as a rule of thumb (like the Golden Rule) than as a descriptor of the world.