The Child

The child was always longing to escape.

Many thoughts later

I've looked and looked for answers,
and the more I look, the more questions, more questions, do I find.

Oh, yes, and oh, yes!
Parallels and more, and yet more, do I
draw,

Yet, no answers, no answers, do I
find.

And, so, and, so,
I shall draw.

'Even scientific studies seem to suggest that there is a correlation between excessive self-cherishing and damage to one's physical well-being.'
[pp. 81-82, 'The Dalai Lama's Book of Transformation', Thorsons 2000]


'Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.'
Prov. 16:3, King James Version


'We must maintain a delicate balance; trusting God as if everything depended on him, while working as if everything depended on us.'
footnote to Prov. 16:3, p. 1101, Life Application Bible, King James Version

On Gender

He sang in silence,
Eternal
She was the Silence,
Everlasting.

Author's own

If we want the Truth, was the first word a mistake?

'One of the strongest Buddhist convictions is that it is not possible to express in words what is most real, sublime and ultimate. For this reason even the finest, most lucid and consistent doctrine can only be regarded as provisional and as obscuring the ultimate truth rather than revealing it.'
[p. 81, 'Buddha: [foreword by the Dalai Lama] William MacQuitty, 1969, Thomas Nelson and Son Ltd.]

Outer Space and Inner Space

'For transition involves the breaking down of previous structures, and this disintegration reveals more clearly the underlying process of change, like threads being woven on a loom'.
Melanie Reinhart

Curious?

'There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge
is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: `Where was I
before I was born?' In the beginning was ... what? Perhaps, in the
beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with
wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you,
although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time
began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.'

(Angela Carter, 'Alice in Prague or The Curious Room', in Carter, American
Ghosts & Old World Wonders, London, Chatto & Windus, 1993, page 127.)

 And I add, 'Why are we, as we are? Why are we here? Who or what made us, as we are? All as different as blades of grass, whilst each micro-second of existence and experience, has and creates its own unique imprint on who we are, what we do, how we do it, how we think and so on.
 If we can take on board the uniqueness of our life, our experience of and in our life, and live this fully, as Henry David Thoreau, so eloquently describes in an earlier posting, if we can taste each moment as a delicious morcel at a banquet, and also, most importantly love each breath we draw, then surely the source of our beginnings can be accepted as a mystery. And, yes, we do all want to know everything, the thirst and hunger is great, yet, in this are we missing something?
Angela Carter's theory is one of displacement activity, in that we feel this lack of knowledge about our beginnings, our source, so, in order not to feel abandonned and lost, we direct ourselves to explore and build up an edifice of knowledge. And, so it follows that this hunger for knowledge is based upon an extremely profound sense of fear.    ...