On the Eye That Sees The Universe

07/03/2006 8:18 AM – 8:41 AM

And when you have nothing to write about, write about nothing. The gray haze settles down and hides within it the promise of adventure. What is adventure? A possibility of danger? Why would that attract? When you don’t know the answer, keep it in mind but move on to what is before you.

Who are you today? Who will you be tomorrow? Doesn’t really matter. When you’re there, be there. Let the highs and lows be highs and lows, let the good enough be enough. Responsibilities taken care of. Remember to have less of them. There is only this and this is more than enough. Get up in the morning. Go to work. Make money. Save as much as you can. Enjoy the things that cost less. Better, enjoy the work that doesn’t cost a thing. Eat your food with joy; drink your intoxicant with a merry heart. Always in moderation, of course. Everything that you could do is enough until that last moment when you stop saying, “not yet.” Then it doesn’t matter anymore. Or maybe it does. Who can tell?

We know these things in the soft sense, but it is enough – you were born, you will die, you’re right here in the meantime. Delight is better than sorrow, but each is beautiful in its own time. When life is most boring, it has the most to teach, but no one can teach you that but your very own self. Recall sometimes that you are insignificant to the subtle strings that move the universe. Recall sometimes that the strings of the universe are insignificant to the you. The eye with which you see God is the eye with which God sees you. Well, sort of. I doubt that Miester Eckhart would recognize that twisting of his words, but it doesn’t matter anyway. The real statement is “the eye that sees the universe is mostly inconsequential to the universe, but the to the eye that sees the universe, the universe is mostly inconsequential.” It is perhaps a fallacy of the “two not one” perspective, but sometimes the sweat on the brow is closer than the mind within it. Bah and bauble. Look out on the world with your own eyes and see that it is very good enough.