The highest good is
like water, which benefits all things
and contends with none. It flows in low
places that others disdain, and
thus it is close to
the Tao.
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A friend may
well be reckoned
the masterpiece
of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
heard in,
and don’t miss, this
beautiful conversation with
Nicholas Christakis
Dying
and giving birth go
on inside the one consciousness,
but most people misunderstand the pure
play of creative energy, how inside
that, those are one
event.
The laws of physics
appear “fine tuned” for our existence.
Even slight deviations in the laws would result
in a universe devoid of stars and life. If, for instance,
the force of gravity were just a few per cent weaker it could
not squeeze and heat the matter inside stars to the millions of
degrees necessary to trigger sunlight-generating nuclear reactions.
If gravity were only a few per cent stronger, however, it would
heat up stars, causing them to consume their fuel faster.
They would not exist for the billions of years
needed for evolution to produce
intelligence. This kind
of fine tuning is
widespread.
In the morning
When I began to wake,
It happened again–
That feeling
That you, Beloved,
Had stood over me all night
Keeping watch,
That feeling
That as soon as I began to stir
You put Your lips on my forehead
And lit a Holy lamp
Inside my heart.