Waxing spiritual
You ever have one of those moments when a word, a phrase, a lyric from a song really stands out? Probably something you've heard a thousand times before--maybe you liked it, maybe not--but never really paid that close attention to?
I was at work today (totally sober, I swear) when Rufus Wainwright's cover of The Beatles' Across The Universe came on. Now, I've always loved this song, and besides that it's one of the most popular Beatles songs ever. Been covered a million times (actually, Wainwright's version, though still good, is really not my favorite). Anyway, for whatever reason, the phrase "limitless undying love" (as in Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns/
It calls me on and on across the universe ) really stuck out.
Understand, it's not as if I stopped in my tracks and played out some gushingly romantic scenario in my head. This isn't a Boyz 2 Men song, after all. It's more like I couldn't find a way to wrap my mind around the concept of love that's limitless and undying. Couldn't really fathom it. And I guess because I can't give it some sort of body, I can't get it out of my head. This is most obviously the kind of love that reaches far past the boundaries of human experience, but I wonder how a human finds himself sitting in the middle of it (like Lennon seemed to be at the time)?
Maybe I really should be a Buddhist.
I was at work today (totally sober, I swear) when Rufus Wainwright's cover of The Beatles' Across The Universe came on. Now, I've always loved this song, and besides that it's one of the most popular Beatles songs ever. Been covered a million times (actually, Wainwright's version, though still good, is really not my favorite). Anyway, for whatever reason, the phrase "limitless undying love" (as in Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns/
It calls me on and on across the universe ) really stuck out.
Understand, it's not as if I stopped in my tracks and played out some gushingly romantic scenario in my head. This isn't a Boyz 2 Men song, after all. It's more like I couldn't find a way to wrap my mind around the concept of love that's limitless and undying. Couldn't really fathom it. And I guess because I can't give it some sort of body, I can't get it out of my head. This is most obviously the kind of love that reaches far past the boundaries of human experience, but I wonder how a human finds himself sitting in the middle of it (like Lennon seemed to be at the time)?
Maybe I really should be a Buddhist.