When you're in the
muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still
see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other
things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. [David Cronenberg]
Float resonates
in my thinkingandfeeling. It’s a concept so simple and yet quite difficult to
grasp immediately. I remember learning to float and trying to help others to
learn to float. It is something which demands a first-hand experience. No
YouTube video is going to DO the trick.
To have faith is to
trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water,
because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. [Alan
Watts]
It’s funny, isn’t it, how a concept like floating can infiltrate our
lives in such essential ways?! Whether we’re negotiating the “muck” of Life or grappling
awkwardly with ideas like Trust and Faith, floating is a part of the equation.
It is simple yet entirely essential. Even if we think ourselves “above it” all,
we’re all floating all the time. To some extent.
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it
and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. [Prem Rawat]
Yes.
I love you, Currie
1 comment:
When I think about it most of the sorrows I have gone through have been because of wanting to hold on to something or someone or some time-- when that is impossible in the first place. :)
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