The story...
The Story
Sat, April 12, 2008 - 11:08 AMIt's just a story.
What Einstein said, what Buddha said, what your mom said, your teachers at school, your husband or wife or partner, it's all just a story.
There's what we observe, and then the story we tell ourselves and each other about what it means, what it is, and why it's happening.
We're all looking out from the lens of our past experience, our past lives, and the memory of the stories we've heard and taken to heart.
We're vessels filled with stories and some stories leave no room for others. We call these stories facts.
Science says, the Church says, the Judge says, here are the facts, and to remain facts they must not wither in the face of a different story.
Fact's don't bend, slide, undulate, drift, waver, twist, reincarnate, or do anything messy like the living do.
Science says, this is the truth, but we may discover a deeper truth later, and then that will be the truth. The church says this is the truth about God, but if a Saint has any further revelations we'll let you know what the new truth is. The Judge says this is the law, but if it changes we'll let you know, and then that will be the law.
Until then, these are the Facts, the Truth, and the Law.
Some stories leave no room inside.
If it's all just a story then maybe leave some room, and hold the story lightly in case you're inspired.
In case you're bowled over by beauty, lifted on a wave of inspiration, swamped in the sadness of revelation or adrift in a sea of understanding.
Leave some room for the eyes of another, for a vision of abundance, or kindness, or compassion.
Leave some room, and then fill it up, but lightly, softly and nearly transparent.
Hold open the gate of your heart and welcome a version of the story that feels like Light and Health and Beauty if you believed it for awhile. Until something more loving, more inclusive and more poetic comes along.
Then let it gently sweep the gossamer beliefs you allowed to drift through you away on the wings of the new.
This isn't the truth.......... it's just a story......
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Sat, April 12, 2008 - 11:57 AM
!!!!!STANDING OVATION!!!!
CG - that was absolutely beautiful! Nice work! I don't just dole out my virtual standing ovations, but this truly deserved. Awesome! Thanks for sharing! :)
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Sat, April 12, 2008 - 4:11 PM
CG
beautiful story
I have beliefs. My feet are made of clay! But each belief binds me in such way that in truth i do not have it, it has me, this belief. A toast to judge blown bedlam then, to mindless reverence, to Rimbaud's drunken boat - to stories all .... |
