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Shop: Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Re: Conflicting and confused beliefs [Re: Tasty_Smurf_House]
    #2389091 - 02/29/04 02:12 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

Got it!

Here man, read this and think:

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.

The current of the river swept silently over them all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.

Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks at the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.

But one creature said at last, 'I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.'

The other creatures laughed and said, 'Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you shall die quicker than boredom!'

But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, 'See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!'

And the one carried in the current said, 'I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.'

But they cried the more, 'Saviour!' all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour.


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Re: Conflicting and confused beliefs [Re: JacquesCousteau]
    #2389134 - 02/29/04 05:41 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

That's awesome. Thanks man.


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Re: Conflicting and confused beliefs [Re: Alan Stone]
    #2389141 - 02/29/04 05:50 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

why not look to outside sources for wisdom? i am as connected, and interdependent to them as anything internal. i think one can find wisdom from just about anything, especially nature...i call it uncommon wisdom. i think one should look inside and out. i believe all external maniestations are just other forms of self-awareness. persoanlly, i wouldnt shut out any means of wisdom, internally or externally.


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Re: Conflicting and confused beliefs [Re: Tasty_Smurf_House]
    #2389219 - 02/29/04 07:32 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

No problem. Hope I helped. :smile:


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