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Late night, chunks of time spent churning out pages, deep in thought or hypnosis, alternating with sessions of creative procrastination, needed to refuel the brain. Jeff Buckley on the speakers, bringing me to tears, bringing me back to 2nd year, when this was the norm--all of it, the working, the procrastinating, the music, the tears
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So surfing on the evernow
So knowing we're dreaming we're awake.
It was a mystery to me for a long time that 'God is no respecter of persons.' I'd like to explain, but I don't think I can, how the mystery opened up when I got a glimpse of how it's not about numbers, it's about ratios. It's not about persons, it's about relationships. This is the Logos in whom [which] 'we live and move and have our being.'
You reminded me of Black Elk's "sacred hoop" and of Voltaire who said, "God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.' And also of George MacDonald who warns us not to set up housekeeping on this scaffolding.
Thanks.
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"It's not about persons, it's about relationships." That is EXACTLY what I'm trying to grasp right now... it's the idea underlying all of my thesis work, and the idea that will probably drive the rest of my intellectual pursuits for quite some time. The Logos existing in the beautifully unstable space between beings, just as meaning lies in the relationships between words rather than the words themselves.
I have been meaning to read Black Elk for a long time--I was lucky enough to spend last summer eating bison burgers at his granddaughter's home/cafe every week in South Dakota looking out at the edge of the Badlands. There is a great deal of wisdom out there, and Black Elk's words guided much of our experience on the Rez.
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