I love all of this but especially the idea of Resonance. I will have to read that book. You put into words so eloquently things which I feel as truth in my soul. I think the world is extremely complicated and society is also complicated. We are but one starling in a murmuration but any slight movement (word or action) we make has an impact on the shape and direction of the whole. Thank you for sharing these ideas.
"And so, not being God opens up a great deal of freedom." I think that was my favorite line you wrote in this essay. I've realized I don't need to administer justice to someone, God will deal with it. I realize too that I have almost no control over things like politics. So I get to vote my conscience and worry not about the outcome - that is in the hands of God. It's so freeing.
Time feels short to us, but do you think it feels short to a bristlecone pine? Did time feel short to Moses? I have this suspicion that this frenzied lack of time is more a product of our modernity than it actually being in short supply. I don't know. Just a pondering that your words sparked...
Thanks so much! I think time’s brevity is felt differently, as a compressed time for action, but maybe this isn’t so dissimilar from other cultures or times?
I love all of this but especially the idea of Resonance. I will have to read that book. You put into words so eloquently things which I feel as truth in my soul. I think the world is extremely complicated and society is also complicated. We are but one starling in a murmuration but any slight movement (word or action) we make has an impact on the shape and direction of the whole. Thank you for sharing these ideas.
I might actually recommend his Uncontrollability of the World. It’s more accessible but same ideas.
Thanks! I will check it out.
"And so, not being God opens up a great deal of freedom." I think that was my favorite line you wrote in this essay. I've realized I don't need to administer justice to someone, God will deal with it. I realize too that I have almost no control over things like politics. So I get to vote my conscience and worry not about the outcome - that is in the hands of God. It's so freeing.
Time feels short to us, but do you think it feels short to a bristlecone pine? Did time feel short to Moses? I have this suspicion that this frenzied lack of time is more a product of our modernity than it actually being in short supply. I don't know. Just a pondering that your words sparked...
Thanks so much! I think time’s brevity is felt differently, as a compressed time for action, but maybe this isn’t so dissimilar from other cultures or times?