Thoughts on living
And all the possibilities of the universe, stretching out before us - a life devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding is the life I choose. The wonder of the ability of thought; how precious a gift we contain. And where did it come from, this beautiful consciousness, these intricate and ever-expanding pathways of the intellect? Who knows? But it is here.
To commit my life to the joy of relationships with other thinkers, those who think long and deep and thorough, forging new leaps of inspiration, as divine as any original creation - thoughts which leap out of minds and enact themselves in reality, dynamic as they zing into life and ride the current wave of what we know to be existence.
Those who think, and those who feel: the feelers who feel strong and deep, within and beyond time, with each breath, moment to moment feeling with every pore of our beings, a resonant presence.
The feelers with emotional continuity, connection, and dare I say it, the sanity to feel in our bodies. To listen to our hips, to stretch and feel the tensions and the space between the tensions.
To connect breath and mind and body into one holistic intelligence and to listen to the messages, which, fast and slow, are broadcast from our very organs, flesh, and muscles. To learn to decipher these messages, to connect the dots... Till body is home and there is no reason to leave, we can feel ourselves comfortable in our flesh. Communicating from within it; expressing through it; utterly connected to it.
And then, there are those who know. Who know from the core, in the grounded space below the belly, where the womb might be - the place of creation, of gut wisdom, and physical truths.
The mind for contemplating and intellectual betterment, the body for feeling and emotional processing, and that small point inside, where all other truths are tried against and found either resonant or wanting. The place where all questions already contain their answers if they are asked in the right way.
That little place in the small of the back from which a sense of direction emerges; a preference for motion, and an internal ability to determine substance from falsity. The essence from which we can knowingly step forward...