All Signs Point
To ourselves creating
Our collective reality
Or our (soul’s) self
Creating a subjective one
Even if not, could you
Think of a better way
To take responsibility
For every action that
One utilizes their behavior
Or context of words to
Manipulate an outcome
To one’s own liking
Not for karma or justice or
Approval from God / Word
But simply for the
Sake of experiences
Exhaustively repetitious or
Seemingly brand new
“The heaviest burden:
“What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you:
‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh… must return to you—all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself.
The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again—and you with it, speck of dust!’
Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him:
‘You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!’ If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you.
The question in each and every thing, “do you want this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight.
Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t let it crush you
Otherwise, it will
Infinitely crush you
Consider then, having experienced
Infinite births, infinite deaths
Infinite loves at “first” sight
Infinite failed tests, infinite success
Infinite toe stubs, infinite headaches
Infinite marriages, infinite divorces
Infinite children, infinite good jobs
Infinite bad bosses, infinite, etcetera’s
Infinite bowel movements
“Ooops, I think I’ve gone too far,”
– George Carlin
How, after all of that
Does one not consider the
Miracle of each moment
Passed through infinitely
“Infinite Dreams”
“Infinite dreams, I can’t deny them
Infinity is hard to comprehend
I couldn’t hear those screams
Even in my wildest dreams
Suffocation waking in a sweat
Scared to fall asleep again
In case the dream begins again
Someone chasing, I can not move
Standing rigid, a nightmare’s statue
What a dream when will it end
And will I transcend?
Restless sleep the minds in turmoil
One nightmare ends another fertile
It’s getting to me so scared to sleep
But scared to wake now, in too deep.
Even though it’s reached new heights
I’d rather like the restless nights
It makes me wonder, it makes me think
There’s more to this. I’m on the brink
It’s not the fear of what’s beyond
It’s just that I might not respond
I have an interest almost craving
But would I like to get too far in?
Can’t all be coincidence
Too many things are evident
You tell me you’re an unbeliever
Spiritualists? Well, me, I’m neither
Wouldn’t you like to know
The truth?
Or what’s out there to have the proof
And find out just which side
You’re on
Where would you end in Heaven or
In Hell?
Help me. Help me to find my true
Self without seeing the future
Save me, save me from torturing
Myself, even within my dreams
There’s got to be just more to it than this
Or tell me why do we exist
I’d like to think that when I die
I’d get a chance another time
And to return and live again
Reincarnate, play the game
Again and again and again.”
– Iron Maiden
Let’s do that. Let’s choose to consider the miracle. Every atom and conglomerate of atoms, even the ones called people, even they are miracles no matter how beautiful or stupid or cruel. Can we align our hearts to choose peace and love no matter what tangle of disorder they present to us? Let’s choose to see only miracles.
You lead the way for us, showing us more than I knew was possible.
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I think we can “align our hearts to choose peace and love no matter what tangle of disorder they present to us.” However, just like farming in the past, that is a long row to hoe. We need modern tools and technology to better feed the mind to equip it to have the collective capacity to do that. Otherwise, the individual is trying to feed the world with a hand trowel and a gardening bucket.
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Good point. I endeavour to interact with an open heart even with people who I (violently) disagree with but I find I get highjacked by my limbic system. That little (not so little) urge to be “Right” seems to be the culprit of all unsatisfying exchanges. When I am capable of being placid in the face of others’ words and ideas, regardless of whether I agree or disagree, all goes well.
Is it possible we have never met anyone who changes their minds by just hearing our perspective?
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Let go, and let word.
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