The world is my twin

[aislingsullivan]

My second literature-inspired entry in a row. One of my favorite books is The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. In it there is a character named May who once had an identical twin. Whatever one was feeling, the other mirrored. When May's twin died, she began to mirror the world. She couldn't differentiate between others' suffering and her own.

Comments

[kingsleya]

I felt exactly as you do now.

Many of the world's faiths believe in an evolution of the sentient being: you arrive at Understanding only through experience, and examination of experience.
This may take many incarnations.

Much of the world is what it is because we have greedy people, foolish people, unconcerned people in our midst.

The Bodhisattva Vow of the Mahayana School is, roughly, to forestall one's own release until all sentient beings are liberated, i.e., until we can somehow aid people to get beyond greed and such.

We'll be a looooong time comin' back, that's sure.

But it's important to realize that one attains understanding only through diligent self-effort; much of the sadness in the world comes about as the result of actions of people who have yet to realize this premise.

[kingsleya]

And my apologies for being a comment hog.

[aislingsullivan]

Lol, that's okay. I doubt anyone else is reading. It's nice to just send my thoughts out into the void expecting nothing, but it's also nice to get a response. Particularly an intelligent one.

[kingsleya]

I'll work at that.