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The Wise Man
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The Wise Man |
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AncientHippie Member
since 2009-10-15
Posts 411Surfing the Cosmic Flow |
He was an old man who had reached a plateau of peace, and of contentment, both on the personal and spiritual level. He had, in his youth, travelled far and frequently, observing diverse and different social mores and customs. He sought the arcane, and thrived on the esoteric, seeking both through books and conversations with sages and scholars, soldiers and fools. He learned from youthful mistakes, incorporating the lessons into his life. He believed in teaching his children through example, through logical conclusion and experience, discounting fairy tales and folk myths, popular culture and politics, as simply interesting stories, and deviations from the Quest for Truth. He explored his inner solitudes, and contemplated the unknown vastness, the unknowable mysteries of Being: of how There goes on forever, and how it is that Now is eternal. He understood the concept of probability, of multiple realities, and how quantum theory opened doors of thought that should change human condition. He held the magic, this old man, that could lift our tragic lives to a level of contentment and understanding unimagined. He held the wisdom to save untold suffering and hardship, to dispel superstition and prejudice: the keys to a new Renaissance of Man. He spoke, and those listening heard not the wisdom nor the magic, but saw an old man with weakened voice and tired eyes, and laughed at his words, calling him silly and feeble. So the world went its way of pain, and of stumbling towards the unknown, blind and unprepared, while the old man meditated, and thought, and was content forever. From the "Quantum Shift" series Sutra 30: Language reflects the Truth of one’s Reality: listen carefully when others speak. |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
AH..they never listen until the sounds of their own agony causes them to hear the quiet..cool stuff inside this |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
"Much Maddness is divinest Sense" (Emily Dickinson)~L |
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AncientHippie Member
since 2009-10-15
Posts 411Surfing the Cosmic Flow |
DS and Lori: My thanks to you both. Not much time on 45 today, as am working on putting Jim's Guide To Enlightenment: The Complete Sutras into Passions in Prose, and the html work is driving me mad! But will, eventually, and in the fullness of time, achieve Peace Jim Sutra 30: Language reflects the Truth of one’s Reality: listen carefully when others speak. |
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