Saturday, September 09, 2006

7. Description:
The Problem Child of Thought

The problem with any attempt to speak of spiritual matters is that descriptions must exist in the physical world—the world of objects and actions, of words and time. As soon as we express anything as language, we risk inferring limitation even if that is not our intention. All we need to do is live, to know that there is an infinite number of possibilities.

No explanation or information should ever be viewed as complete, for words and explanations exist only as a secondary reality. They are a shallow incomplete reflection (without prejudice or judgment) of what we are at this moment, for the words that we use, and whatever explanations we choose, represent only a single static pattern of perception, a solitary tier of logic. It is fine to hold and examine it, as long as we remember that nothing exists in isolation, and nothing remains unchanged, especially perception and understanding, which are mutable, shifting processes. Each of us is living, experiencing, choosing, and being just as surprised by life as everyone else, so our reflections and expressions are changing: combining and focusing here, separating and blurring there.

Words are only a description of life, not life itself. We all have our own experience of reality, and our own notions of God (or notGod); each of us occupies the space we fill, whenever the place, and wherever that time might be, so no one can find another's belief system complete. The best we can do is share the common denominators that echo in all of us, and to believe in the value of our own existence, for we all hold our own combination of pieces of the same puzzle.

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