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To Better Understand
To better understand:
as it is, I admire scientist and mystic equally so, each being an explorer of the infinite measure of the mind, seeking to better understand the mysteries of the world just a bit more and share it with us all. Both, with a language of their own, tell their point in stories, with metaphors used for easy explanation of what really can’t be told with words. Scientist and mystics are poets in a way and I find their language beautiful, a vivid description of the world with the end result of being seamless in my view. Science tells of my belonging to a world that only appears solid and sure, describing things as both wave and form, matter and immaterial. I am fascinated by my ancient origins, traced through evolution all the way to the Big Bang itself. I am truly older than the stars. Mystics tell a similar tale of consciousness and tie it all together in a seamless fashion. I belong to the world because I am no less than an aspect of its entirety, that even at this moment I am immaterial in spite my appearance as solid form, an equal trade of matter and void. The mystic uses metaphors of God and soul, a language employed to better understand mysteries that seem to flow from inner to an outer world.
again, the end result being seamless.
and yet for me, at least right now, there doesn’t seem to be anything to better understand. The world…